00:00The internet is losing its mind over a tiny baby monkey named Punch.
00:04The Japanese macaque was born in July 2025, but was abandoned by his mother,
00:11and had to be hand-reared by staff at the Ichikawa City Zoo.
00:15To ease the little one's loneliness, the zoo staff gave Punch a small orangutan plushie.
00:21Images of the baby monkey with his plushie toy have warmed the hearts of social media users,
00:27but it hasn't completely translated to any sort of popularity amongst his monkey playmates.
00:33His failed attempts to find a surrogate monkey family and make some friends
00:37has been documented online with the hashtag HangInTheirPunch.
01:01Thankfully, on February 6th, 2026, the workers at the zoo posted to social media, saying,
01:07Punch is gradually deepening his interactions with the troop of monkeys.
01:12He's getting groomed, playfully poking at others, getting scolded,
01:16and having all sorts of experiences every day,
01:19steadily learning how to live as a monkey within his troop.
01:23With some acceptance from his own kind,
01:26he is gradually finding a way to move on from his plushie friend.
01:32His ending is a particular point of view of the kind of
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