{"id":472318,"date":"2026-06-02T12:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/472318\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T12:37:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:37:31","slug":"a-lonely-monkey-to-the-dark-side-of-the-moon-nine-of-the-most-striking-images-of-2026-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/472318\/","title":{"rendered":"A lonely monkey to the dark side of the Moon: Nine of the most striking images of 2026 so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">A photo taken in February at the Ichikawa City Zoo, in Ichikawa, Japan, of Punch, a baby Japanese macaque, gazing affectionately into the oversized eyes of a stuffed orangutan sitting beside him, was among the more affecting images captured so far this year. The intensity of Punch&#8217;s soulful, unrequited stare recalls a series of extraordinary paintings undertaken in the last decades of the 19th Century by German painter and primatologist Gabriel von Max, whose poignant portrait <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gabriel_von_Max#\/media\/File:Affe_vor_Skelett.jpg\" class=\"sc-2554282c-0 cDYatN\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Monkey Before Skeleton, 1900<\/a>, is invigorated by that same unfulfilled longing for a spark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A photo taken in February at the Ichikawa City Zoo, in Ichikawa, Japan, of Punch, a baby Japanese&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-472318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}