From tool-using chimpanzees to puzzle-solving capuchins, the primate world is packed with surprising brainpower. But how do the planet’s cleverest monkeys and apes really compare with human intelligen ...

An orangutan surrogacy program is giving the most vulnerable babies in Borneo something they thought they had lost forever: a ...

For months, four infant orangutans lived in limbo in Thailand — not as pets, but as evidence. Confiscated in two separate trafficking cases, they were cared for at the Khao Pratubchang Wildlife Rescue ...

Punch, the young Japanese macaque at Ichikawa Zoo in Japan, has stolen hearts everywhere with his touching bond to a plush orangutan toy that fans affectionately call Oran Mama. This little monkey ...

Maggie Penman chats with science journalist Deborah Blum about how baby monkey Punch’s stuffed toy has given him courage to ...

The latest feature from Disney’s Disneynature imprint, narrated by Disney Legend Josh Gad, will arrive on Disney+ on Earth Day, April 22. The new feature “introduces Indah, an inquisitive adolescent ...

Punch the Monkey became an internet icon after he appeared in a video running toward a plush orangutan, which serves as his surrogate mother, after he was "scolded" by another adult monkey. Punch's ...

After the ‘nihilist’ penguin, the Internet found its new inspiration in Punch, a six-month-old macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan. Abandoned by its mother soon after birth, Punch’s story has ...

SINGAPORE – Move over, Moo Deng, because 2026 looks to be the year of Japanese baby macaque Punch and his stuffed orang utan from Ikea. The seven-month-old male monkey – who was abandoned by his ...

A baby monkey abandoned by his mother has won over many fans online after a video of the macaque went viral earlier this month, showing him dragging a stuffed orangutan toy from IKEA around his ...

Inseparable: Punch clutching its stuffed orang utan at Ichikawa City Zoo, in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture. — Reuters At a zoo outside Tokyo, the monkey enclosure has become a must-see attraction thanks ...

The internet’s latest emotional obsession — Punch, the baby monkey who captured hearts worldwide — has also turned an unlikely object into a global bestseller: an orange orangutan plush toy from ...