Zoo Shares New Update on Punch the Baby Monkey After Online Concerns
Punch’s first days were defined by absence: no mother to cling to, no warm body to mirror. Into that void stepped humans with incubators, bottles, and a plush orangutan that became his stand‑in comfort. The world saw the photos and rushed to feel something — tenderness, anger, protectiveness — often faster than it could understand what it was seeing. As he began meeting other macaques, every rough tug and startled retreat was replayed as potential cruelty. Yet within that uncomfortable…