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A viral monkey, his plushie, and a 70-year-old experiment

date Feb 23, 2026

a macaque monkey named Punch has gone viral for his pursuit of companionship. the monkey was abandoned by his mother and rejected by the rest of his troop. his zookeepers provided Punch with an orangutan plushie as a stand-in mother.

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