Punch The Monkey's Plush: Why Animals, Including Humans, Love 'Cuddle Therapy'

Primate expertise provided by Dr Luke Duncan, a postdoctoral research fellow, primatologist, and part of the University of Warwick’s ApeTank. Therapy comment by relationship therapist and author at Passionerad, Sofie Roos. 

If you’re 1) on social media and 2) have something resembling a heart, chances are it’s been broken by the Japanese macaque, Punch, from Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan. 

The adorable monkey, whose mother abandoned him, has gone viral for clutching an IKEA orangutan...