Punch, a 7-month-old macaque monkey, had no friends. His mother abandoned him. He wasn’t quite fitting in with the other monkeys at Ichikawa City Zoo, outside Tokyo. The closest thing he had to loved ...

Monkeys come in an incredible range of sizes, from tiny species that can fit in your hand to intimidating primates weighing ...

According to one spectator from Business Insider, Punch is so popular that his visits from the public are limited to 10 minutes per group to allow everyone to get the opportunity to catch a glimpse at ...

If you’ve been on the internet in the past week, you know about Punch, the 7-month old Japanese macaque whose sad tale of abandonment and loneliness has spread around the world via video clips and ...

Some baby monkeys have different color hair than their parents. A number of langur species, including silvered leaf langurs, François’ langurs, and spectacled langurs, have dark grey to black hair as ...

On an island in Panama, a fad that one researcher called "viscerally disturbing" has recently taken off among a group of young male monkeys. These adolescents and juveniles have started to kidnap the ...

The 6-week-old patas monkey named Yuji was born on March 3 in Mexico Gabrielle Rockson is a Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2023 and covers entertainment and human interest stories.

HEIDELBERG, Miss. -- A second monkey has been shot and killed and authorities said Tuesday that they were still searching for a third missing monkey a week after their escape from a truck that ...