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Author name: Mark Nielsen

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 heart-wrenching 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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