The story of Punch the monkey finding comfort in a stuffed animal after being abandoned at birth is real. In early 2026, images and videos appearing to show a baby monkey holding an orangutan plush ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Huge lines are forming outside a small zoo in Japan, all for one tiny monkey and the stuffed animal he refuses to let go of.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Punch, the abandoned Japanese monkey who's now internet-famous for befriending a $20 stuffed orangutan from Ikea, has become an ...

An adorable stuffed toy from IKEA has sold out worldwide after becoming the emotional centerpiece of a viral story involving a baby monkey in Japan. The $20 Djungelskog orangutan plush flew off ...

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.

Punch the Monkey became an internet icon after he appeared in a video running toward a plush orangutan, which serves as his surrogate mother, after he was "scolded" by another adult monkey. Punch's ...