Punch, a six-month-old Japanese macaque monkey with enormous round eyes, long spindly arms and an adorable potbelly, has no idea that outside the four walls of his enclosure he’s a global celebrity.
On February 5, Ichikawa City Zoo – 20 miles outside Tokyo – posted a picture online of Punch clinging desperately to an orangutan soft toy from Ikea alongside a heartbreaking caption that revealed the infant had been abandoned by his mother.
