{"id":535303,"date":"2026-04-17T03:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/535303\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T03:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:41:13","slug":"meet-the-latest-baby-monkey-finding-comfort-in-a-plush-companion-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/535303\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the latest baby monkey finding comfort in a plush companion | Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the latest baby monkey going viral for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/news\/punch-monkey-japan-ichikawa-zoo-toy-mother-b2947817.html\" title=\"Punch the monkey clings to zoo keeper as they replace his surrogate mother with new toy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> finding comfort in a plush toy<\/a> after being rejected by its mother.<\/p>\n<p>Yuji, a young patas monkey, is being raised by veterinarians at the Guadalajara Zoo after his mother failed to form a bond with him or properly care for him.<\/p>\n<p>He has found a constant companion in a stuffed toy, which serves as a substitute for maternal contact and helps him feel secure while feeding and resting.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after Punch the monkey broke millions of hearts after videos of him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/news\/japan-baby-monkey-toy-orangutan-zoo-video-b2922537.html\" title=\"Baby monkey abandoned by mother finds comfort in cuddly orangutan toy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dragging around a stuffed animal<\/a> given to him as a substitute mother went viral online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meet the latest baby monkey going viral for finding comfort in a plush toy after being rejected by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[6494,309,185020,185018,11237,185021,185019,386,184837,4556,183803,185022,6500,2207,6487,128155,90,1671,217,183798,56,54,55,13339,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-535303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-color-image","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-friendly-match","11":"tag-headshot","12":"tag-horizontal","13":"tag-international-match","14":"tag-international-team-soccer","15":"tag-japan","16":"tag-london-england","17":"tag-marc-guehi","18":"tag-match-sport","19":"tag-national-team","20":"tag-one-person","21":"tag-people","22":"tag-photography","23":"tag-rear-view","24":"tag-science","25":"tag-soccer","26":"tag-sport","27":"tag-stadium","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-united-kingdom","30":"tag-unitedkingdom","31":"tag-wembley-stadium","32":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535303","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=535303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}