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Punch The Monkey’s Viral Orphanhood Is The Perfect Reminder That Babies Need Their Moms

Compassion for Punch the monkey’s viral orphanhood should extend to babies deprived of their mothers via third-party reproduction.

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Every once in a while, an animal captures the hearts and cameras of people all over the world.

There was Harambe, whose death nearly a decade ago sparked an ongoing debate about the value placed on human and animal lives, and the Washington D.C. giant pandas, whose exit and reappearance fueled headlines for literal years. More recently, the creatures creating conversations were Moo Deng, a baby pygmy hippopotamus at a Thailand zoo, and later Pesto the Penguin, a resident at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Australia.

The latest manifestation of this animal phenomenon is primate Punch, a baby Japanese macaque whose mother abandoned him shortly after his birth in July 2024. In an effort to lessen the blow of rejection for Punch, the zookeepers at Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan offered the monkey a stuffed orangutan as consolation.

Clips of Punch clutching the plush in stressful and lonely moments tugged at the heartstrings of the internet. When the adult monkeys in Punch’s enclosure tried to put him in his place,........

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