Punch the monkey, a Japanese macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo, has a new companion—and the internet cannot stop watching. Videos from March 15 show Punch, whose full name is Panchi-kun, cuddling and ...

There's surely a reason we all went briefly nuts about a lonely little snow monkey called Punch living in a Japanese zoo.

Punch is a baby Japanese macaque living at the Ichikawa City Zoo. Punch was born in July 2025, but things didn’t begin smoothly. According to reports from international news out ...

Images of Punch dragging around the toy bigger than him drew attention to the residents of a zoo near Tokyo. When other monkeys shooed the baby away, Punch rushed back to the toy orangutan, hugging it ...

ICHIKAWA, Japan (CNN) - Abandoned at birth, a baby monkey at a Japanese zoo found comfort in a stuffed orangutan toy, winning thousands of hearts online. Punch, a 6-month-old Japanese macaque, was ...

Punch the monkey, who won hearts online after turning to a plush orangutan toy for company, is now reported to be getting on well with his real-life zoo companions. In an update on X, Ichikawa Zoo ...

DRAPER, Utah (KTVX) — After Punch, the baby monkey carrying around his plush toy from IKEA reached viral status online in the past few weeks, IKEA stores across the world have been unable to keep the ...