Have you spent the week checking social media for updates on how Punch the macaque monkey is doing? Well, if so, you aren’t alone. Here & Now’s Peter O’Dowd talks with Michelle Del Rey, a trending ...

A baby Japanese macaque named Punch went viral after a video showed him clinging to a stuffed orangutan. Florida has an invasive population of macaque monkeys. The monkeys in Florida were introduced ...

Punch is a baby monkey at Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan. Abandoned at birth, Punch has gone viral for the wholesome relationship he has with a stuffed orangutan. The stuffed animal appears to be one sold ...

Punch the Monkey went viral after a video appeared to show the baby macaque getting "attacked" by adult macaques. Hearts around the world broke when he ran to his surrogate mom, a stuffed orangutan.

This photo taken on February 19, 2026 shows a seven month-old male macaque monkey named Punch, who was abandoned by his mother shortly after birth, sitting with a stuffed orangutan toy at Ichikawa ...

If you’ve been on social media or scrolling the internet this weekend, you may have scrolled past a sweet monkey who stole our hearts. Punch, a young Japanese macaque at a zoo in Japan, has gone viral ...

Mark Nielsen receives funding from the Australian Research Council. A baby macaque monkey named Punch has gone viral for his heart-wrenching pursuit of companionship. After being abandoned by his ...

If you’ve been scrolling through social media lately, you might have come across a small, furry macaque, solemnly lugging a slightly larger orangutan toy with him everywhere he goes. That would be ...

What’s it like to have millions of fans but struggle to make friends? For Punch, a 7-month-old macaque, fame and loneliness have collided, leaving the world watching as he clings to a stuffed ...

A baby monkey named Punch is struggling to find acceptance in his macaque enclosure in a Japanese zoo, and endeared social media users are fully on his side. Punch, who was abandoned by his mother ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plenty of times stories that go viral aren't fun or delightful. Then, along comes one about an animal that melts the hearts of ...

A lonely baby monkey is breaking hearts all over the world, after a video went viral of him running to grab a stuffed toy after a vicious attack by another monkey. Who Is Punch the Lonely Monkey?