IKEA is rallying behind a baby macaque in Japan who captured the world's heart with his love for a stuffed orangutan.

You know that feeling when you see something online and your heart just cracks wide open? That’s what’s happening right now with Punch, a tiny Japanese snow monkey whose story of abandonment, an

In a new video of Punch, the baby monkey is dragged around in circles by an adult monkey, upsetting animal lovers around the globe. The zoo explains.

A baby monkey has received an outpouring of sympathy after footage showed him being bullied by a much bigger adult.

Punch the Monkey, a baby at Japan’s Ichikawa City Zoo, went viral after bonding with a plush toy. Here’s why the internet can’t stop talking about him.

Videos of Punch clinging to his stuffed companion spread rapidly online. The emotional turning point came when footage showed the baby monkey being bullied by other monkeys in the troop, prompting a global wave of support. Some fans even traveled to Ichikawa City Zoo to see Punch in person. The response caught staff off guard.

Punch, a Japanese macaque, received an outpour of online love after videos of him clutching a small orangutan plushie at the Ichikawa City Zoo went viral.

People started showing up at the zoo in droves. One weekend saw just over 8,000 visitors—double the traffic they'd normally get. Families were driving hours just to stand at monkey mountain and yell encouragement at a six-month-old macaque, Punch. Sometimes a little encouragement can mean the difference between happiness and loneliness

Punch, a monkey at a Japanese zoo, went viral for only having one friend, a plush orangutan, he has now started to make more friends.