Punch, a baby macaque monkey at Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan, has quickly become an online celebrity. Zoo staff say he is acclimating to his roommates.

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Doctoral student Aleksey Maro and his adviser Professor Robert Dudley, from the University of California, Berkeley, documented last year that the fruits chimps eat in the wild contain enough alcohol ...

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The world stood still in favor of Punch - the infant monkey whose toy he holds in his arms rather than his mother. There's ...

From the last thylacine to Mollie the drinking, smoking orangutan, little Punch the monkey is the latest in a long line of lonely zoo animals.

Matt Lovatt, director for the UK’s Trentham Monkey Forest, told the BBC that rejection by parents is rare among macaques, but that males of the species do as much caretaking as the females, so Punch ...

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