Some trees are remarkable simply because of how long they have been standing. The monkey puzzle tree, known scientifically as Araucaria araucana, belongs to a lineage so ancient that its ancestors ...

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 ...

Clutching a monkey plushie, Eliete Ikeda screamed "Punch!" as she caught sight of the underdog baby macaque still drawing crowds of photo-hungry visitors to a Japanese zoo weeks after he shot to ...

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 ...

'This big monkey has accepted Punch, and Punch has completely grown attached.' ICHIKAWA, Japan -- Punch the baby orphan macaque is outgrowing the orangutan plushie that comforted him through early ...

ICHIKAWA, Japan (AP) — Punch the baby orphan macaque is outgrowing the orangutan plushie that comforted him through early rejection from his mother and other monkeys. Images of Punch dragging around ...

Punch the baby orphan macaque is outgrowing the orangutan plushie that comforted him through early rejection from his mother and other monkeys. Images of Punch dragging around the toy bigger than him ...

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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 ...

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 ...