In a new video of Punch, the baby monkey is dragged around in circles by an adult monkey, upsetting animal lovers around the globe. The zoo explains.

Punch's mother abandoned the macaque ⁠when he was born seven months ago at the Ichikawa City Zoo and when an onlooker noticed and alerted zookeepers, they ‌swung into action.

Punch is a baby monkey who lives at the Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan and was abandoned by his mother.

A baby monkey named “Punch” is struggling to find acceptance in his macaque enclosure in a Japanese Zoo, and the internet is fully on his side.

An abandoned monkey at a Japanese zoo who lugs around a stuffed animal as a companion has won over the hearts of social media users.

Punch has rarely been seen without it since, dragging the cuddly toy everywhere even though it is bigger than him, and delighting fans who have flocked to the zoo since videos of the two went viral.