A 1-Pound Monkey Rejected by His Mom Now Clings to a Stuffed Dog

Punch, the baby macaque monkey, went viral for his heart-warming connection to an orangutan plushie that he carried with him ...

I Went To Go See Punch — The Internet's Favorite Viral Baby Monkey — And Boy, Was I Surprised

ICYMI, the monkey’s name is Punch — or Panchi-kun — and he was abandoned at birth by his mother, due to a stressful pregnancy ...

Yuji the baby monkey finds comfort in plush teddy

Yuji, the baby patas monkey, is winning hearts and fans for his love of a stuffed teddy bear. Little Yuji was rejected by his ...
The New York Times

This Was Odd: These Monkeys Kidnapped Babies From Another Species.

Male capuchin monkeys on a Panamanian island were documented carrying around infant howler monkeys for no clearly discernible reason. By Elizabeth Landau Capuchin monkeys don’t generally hang ...

Another Baby Zoo Monkey Abandoned by Mom Befriends a Stuffy— Here’s How You Can See Him Before He Goes Viral

After being rejected by his mother, a baby monkey at the Guadalajara Zoo finds comfort in a stuffed dog while caretakers raise him.

Meet Yuji, the Mexican baby monkey finding comfort in a plush companion

Yuji, a 6-week-old patas monkey, wakes up every day clinging to a stuffed dog. This plush companion acts as a surrogate mom after he was rejected by his own mother, Kamaria, a first-time parent who ...
Los Angeles Times

Fragile baby spider monkeys ‘ripped’ from mothers, brought to SoCal. Trafficker sentenced

A Texas man was busted for trafficking vulnerable Mexican baby spider monkeys, who were too young to be separated from their mothers, into San Diego and selling them on Facebook. Sarmad Ghaled ...