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The tragedy of Punch the monkey: why do mother animals abandon their offspring?

A baby Japanese macaque named Punch was abandoned by his mother, bullied by other monkeys, and comforted by a stuffed orangutan provided by zookeepers.

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13 years later, the IKEA monkey is all grown up and his sanctuary is at capacity | CBC News

Darwin knows what cameras look like and how to avoid them. From inside his enclosure, the monkey of Toronto Ikea parking lot fame spots us out of the corner of his eye and bolts under the table. The now 13-year-old Japanese macaque has seen enough of the spotlight to last a lifetime. Darwin was just a baby when he was found in a North York Ikea parking lot in 2012, wearing a diaper and shearling coat, and seized by animal services.

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The tragedy of Punch the monkey: why do mother animals abandon their offspring?

13 years later, the IKEA monkey is all grown up and his sanctuary is at capacity | CBC News

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