Punch the monkey needs more than your love

If you’d do anything for the internet’s favorite baby monkey, start with this. | Jiji Press/AFP

Much like their human cousins, baby macaques crave comfort. 

Punch, a forlorn-looking young Japanese macaque monkey, went viral last week after being pictured clinging to an orange IKEA orangutan plushie at Japan’s Ichikawa City Zoo. Abandoned by his mother after being born in captivity, baby Punch has struggled to make friends in his concrete enclosure, even as his far-flung human fans fall madly, swiftly, deeply in love.