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Have you been following the tale of Punch the monkey? For those unaware, Punch is a baby macaque housed in a zoo in Japan, who was abandoned by his mother after birth.
Videos of the cute primate have been going viral online, because he is inseparable from a cuddly toy orangutan donated by his keepers at Ichikawa City Zoo.
Perhaps Punch has been tugging on our heart strings because his behaviour illustrates one of the innate and essential drives in human children – for companionship and physical affection.
