Japan's Ichikawa City Zoo addressed concerns that its resident monkey Punch was "being bullied" by his fellow macaques as videos of him seeking comfort from an orangutan plushie continue to go viral.

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In the age of endless scrolling, these clips seem almost ordinary. A penguin walking away from its colony across the Antarctic ice. A baby monkey clut.

Few viral stories have stirred as much emotion online as that of Punch, a seven-month-old Japanese macaque from the Ichikawa Zoo in Japan. Born last July, Punch became an international sensation after ...

In Sandakan, history does not sit quietly in museums. It floats on the water. WHEN my first employer, posted me to Sandakan in 1991, I believed – like many young plantation men – that I was ready for ...