{"id":500452,"date":"2026-03-28T17:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500452\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T17:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:31:12","slug":"punch-the-monkey-has-made-new-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500452\/","title":{"rendered":"Punch the monkey has made new friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Takashi Yasunaga, head of Ichikawa Zoo and gardens division said that Punch is trying his best to make new friends: &#8220;Recently, he has started to actively approach the other monkeys on his own, trying to communicate with them, and actually playing together with them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve been seeing many more scenes like that, and as caretakers, we find that very encouraging.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Punch has increased visitor numbers to Ichikawa Zoo so much over the last few months that there are now strict rules in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When so many people&#8217;s eyes are focused on the monkey enclosure, the monkeys get stressed\u2026 We&#8217;ve established viewing rules around the monkey area, increased staff numbers to help guide and manage the flow of visitors,&#8221; Yasunaga said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Takashi Yasunaga, head of Ichikawa Zoo and gardens division said that Punch is trying his best to make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-500452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}