A kindergartner frolics on a jungle gym during a festival in Louisville, Kentucky, in September 2017. Natosha Via When Sebastian “Ted” Hinton was a child, his father, a Princeton mathematician, built ...

A woman in Nashua is spreading positivity by handing out little plastic monkeys when she encounters strangers on her daily walks."I see something going on. I say hi to people. I talk to them," ...

Two people were arrested in Japan after a person broke into the viral macaque Punch’s enclosure at a zoo outside of Tokyo, officials said. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

Two American nationals were arrested Sunday in Japan after one of them entered the monkey enclosure at a zoo where a baby macaque named Punch became a global internet sensation earlier this year, ...

One common issue uniting households across the world is the plague of lost socks in the laundry and the odd leftovers that are fished out of your washing machine without their partner. However, the ...

One of us is a Republican from New York City. One is a Democrat from Las Vegas. The third is an actress and animal welfare advocate. We do not agree on everything, but we agree on this: It is time to ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. — The Sock Monkey Madness festival is set to return for its 21st year at the Midway Village Museum on March 7. Running from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., this year's event embraces a Sock Hop theme ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. A baby macaque monkey named Punch has gone viral for his heart-wrenching ...

Remember I'm Still Here by Emilia Evans-Munton has been confirmed as the world's largest sock monkey sculpture. Glasgow School of Art Guinness World Records has officially declared a sock monkey the ...

Emilia Evans-Munton's “Remember I'm Still Here” (2025) lays in the back parking lot of Stow College at the Glasgow School of Art. (all photos by and courtesy the artist unless otherwise noted) It's ...

Punch the Monkey went viral after a video appeared to show the baby macaque getting "attacked" by adult macaques. Hearts around the world broke when he ran to his surrogate mom, a stuffed orangutan.

A baby monkey named Punch is struggling to find acceptance in his macaque enclosure in a Japanese zoo, and endeared social media users are fully on his side. Punch, who was abandoned by his mother ...