Amsterdam is teeming with animals and nature – for those who know how to look. After a ten-year wait, there is now a ...

What if the world’s ugliest animals are actually some of nature’s greatest survival experts? At first glance, creatures like the Blobfish or Naked Mole-Rat look bizarre, uncomfortable, and almost ...

When you see this primate’s nose, you know you’re in Borneo, where efforts are underway to restore its habitat By Alex Fox Photograph by Roberto García-Roa Some 150 proboscis monkeys like this one ...

Punch the monkey fans can put their hearts and minds at ease: The once-abandoned baby macaque is making more and more friends, according to his caretakers. So many, in fact, that he may be outgrowing ...

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. And his zookeeper has told CNN that the seemingly ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. A baby macaque monkey named Punch has gone viral for his heart-wrenching ...

He’s the rejected monkey who has become the internet’s adopted animal baby. But while you cannot take Punch home, you can curl up with his companion — if you can find one in stock, that is. Punch, a ...

In early 2026, images and videos appearing to show a baby monkey holding an orangutan plush toy went viral on social media. While Punch pulled on heartstrings across the world, skeptical Snopes ...

And now a lighter story to end the week. In a zoo outside Tokyo, one monkey has pulled heartstrings around the world after forming an unexpected friendship. Stephanie Sy has the story. It's a story of ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Punch the baby macaque, whose attachment to a stuffed orangutan first ...

Punch the Monkey went viral after a video appeared to show the baby macaque getting "attacked" by adult macaques. Hearts around the world broke when he ran to his surrogate mom, a stuffed orangutan.

A baby monkey named Punch is struggling to find acceptance in his macaque enclosure in a Japanese zoo, and endeared social media users are fully on his side. Punch, who was abandoned by his mother ...