Every few months, people decide they deeply love an animal they haven’t met.Last year, it was Moo Deng, a pygmy hippo in a zoo in Thailand. Moo was hungry, play ...

The plight of a young, abandoned macaque monkey in Japan has tugged at heartstrings around the world. If we recognise animals' capacity for distress, what responsibility does that entail?

In the age of endless scrolling, these clips seem almost ordinary. A penguin walking away from its colony across the Antarctic ice. A baby monkey clut.

Animal rights activists say that viral online content about animals like ‘Punch-kun’ has the potential to drive the illegal ...

Videos showing the forlorn little macaque dragging around his orangutan plushy went viral and gained him global sympathy ...

Brands shared Punch-themed posts in mixed tones, echoing a long trend of leveraging viral animals like cats and dog memes and penguins for visibility.

The world is going gaga over a seven-month-old Japanese macaque named Punch. This primate, who was abandoned by his mother, has spurred thousands of videos online, a surge in the sale of an IKEA toy, ...

Punch-kun baby macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo bonds with an IKEA plush after being rejected at birth, as keepers guide him into ...

PETA has issued a statement on the sad reality behind Punch the baby monkey after he went viral following his mum's rejection of him at birth.

Punch is a baby Japanese macaque living at the Ichikawa City Zoo. Punch was born in July 2025, but things didn’t begin smoothly. According to reports from international news out ...

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Internet culture has spent decades turning zoo residents and household pets into global celebrities, and the phenomenon shows ...