A viral monkey, his plushie, and a 70-year-old experiment: what Punch tells us about attachment theory

A baby macaque monkey named Punch has gone viral for his heart-wrenching pursuit of companionship. After being abandoned by his mother and rejected by the rest of his troop, his zookeepers at Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan provided Punch with an orangutan plushie as a stand-in mother. Videos of the monkey clinging to the toy […] The post A viral monkey, his plushie, and a 70-year-old experiment: what Punch tells us about attachment theory appeared first on Interaksyon.