A baby monkey at a zoo in Japan has found comfort in a stuffed animal. This week, it's a little monkey named Punch. Punch — or more colloquially, Punch-kun — is a baby macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo in Chiba, Japan, near Tokyo. And online, people are responding in kind with adoring posts, support, and fan art of little Punch-kun and his stuffed toy. In his tiny arms wrapped around a stuffed animal, people recognize something of their own — and the possibility that he, like them, will be OK.

Source: Punch February 17, 2026 23:45 UTC