Over the past few weeks, a baby macaque at Japan’s Ichikawa City Zoo named Punch has taken the internet by storm. Viral ...

Japanese macaques are smart social animals. We expect that Punch will be able to learn how to find a place in his monkey group.

Punch the baby orphan macaque is outgrowing the orangutan plushie that comforted him through early rejection from his mother ...

Viral baby macaque Punch is the star of a brand new, free video game on PC, and it comes with a message regarding animal sanctuaries and zoos.

While Japanese macaques are not great apes, scientists have long observed that many primates rely on body language and ...

There’s now a video game where you can play as Punch, the viral baby monkey from Ichikawa Zoo. Punch, a baby macaque from Japan, quickly took the internet by storm after videos of him clinging to an ...

Since moving to Tokyo last year, my friends back in New York have made a habit of sending me viral posts about Japan. That's how I first learned about Punch, the baby monkey abandoned by his mother ...

If you’ve been on the internet in the past few weeks, chances are you’ve seen him: a tiny gray-brown monkey dragging a big, stuffed orangutan around Japan’s Ichikawa Zoo. His name? Punch-kun, or Punch ...

In early 2026, images and videos appearing to show a baby monkey holding an orangutan plush toy went viral on social media. ...

H IS TROUBLES began the moment he was born. His mother rejected him. He struggled to fit in with his peers: they bullied him and dragged him around by his hair. His only source of comfort was a plushy ...

Of course, other AI videos of Punch the monkey are more obvious. When the tiny macaque first went viral, people started creating AI videos of Punch taking his revenge on the monkeys who wronged him. A ...

The zoo says Punch is adjusting to troop life amid growing attention, with staff insisting “animal welfare is the top ...