Internet culture has spent decades turning zoo residents and household pets into global celebrities, and the phenomenon shows ...

Every few months, people decide they deeply love an animal they haven’t met.Last year, it was Moo Deng, a pygmy hippo in a zoo in Thailand. Moo was hungry, play ...

Punch is a baby Japanese macaque living at the Ichikawa City Zoo. Punch was born in July 2025, but things didn’t begin smoothly. According to reports from international news out ...

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He’s the cutest thing on the internet right now—maybe ever—but there’s more to the Punch phenomenon than his sweet face and heartbreaking story ...

If you search “Punch the Monkey” on Google, you may notice your screen fill up with hearts — inside, the image of a small ...

Rejected by his mother near Japan’s Ichikawa City Zoo, Punch was sheltered by the zookeepers. Here's all about the viral ...

Punch is not the first captive animal to spark such strong emotional reactions. Moo Deng, a baby pygmy hippo, drew thousands ...

Punch, a baby macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo, has gone viral after bonding with a stuffed monkey, sparking emotional reactions.

If you've been on the internet in the past few weeks, chances are you've seen him: a tiny gray-brown monkey dragging a big, stuffed orangutan around Japan's Ichikawa Zoo. His name? Punch-kun, or Punch ...

Animal rights activists say that viral online content about animals like ‘Punch-kun’ has the potential to drive the illegal ...