Scientists call this phenomenon emotional mimicry. Biologists and psychologists consider this automatic matching of another’s ...

Images of him being bullied by his enclosure-mates, retreating to safety and clinging to a plushie look-alike for comfort won hearts around the world. But finally, Punch the monkey is fitting in.

We explore the dark truth of why the internet rallies more around a zoo monkey than detained kids separated from their immigrant parents. Punch, the baby monkey has captivated international audiences ...

The Miami Herald reported this week that the local Republican chapter’s recently established Whatsapp group chat for young conservatives was quickly overrun with racist and misogynistic posts.

Little Punch, a seven-month-old Japanese macaque living in the Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan, has captured hearts on the ...

Punch the baby orphan macaque is outgrowing the orangutan plushie that comforted him through early rejection from his mother and other monkeys. Images of Punch dragging around the toy bigger ...

A Merrillville Intermediate School 5th grade teacher was suspended with pay pending an investigation for telling his students “You all are acting like monkeys in a zoo,” Superintendent ...

While Japanese macaques are not great apes, scientists have long observed that many primates rely on body language and imitation as part of social bonding. Visitors waving at Punch day after day may ...

Ex-Fortnite developer Richie Branson officially introduces Zoo Fighter, a free-to-play web game inspired by the viral story of Punch, the baby macaque from Japan’s Ichikawa Zoo. Taking cues from the ...

If you visited the internet in the past two weeks, you probably know about Punch the monkey, the adorable little guy who was abandoned by his mother and shoved by his zoomates, turning to a stuffed ...

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 ...