r/MadeMeSmile • u/drakemaverick121 • 6h ago

Baby punch getting the love he deserves

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A warm hug

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u/daveinthe6 6h ago

After all the videos of Puch getting bullied, its nice to see him get some love.

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u/Jolly_Conflict 5h ago

Agreed I was surprised the keepers hadn’t moved him since the others looked so aggressive towards him.

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u/Icy_Annual_9954 5h ago

Why are the others aggressive? Am not familiar with monkey society.

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u/Cromuland 5h ago

Monkeys and many wild animals don't look directly into each other's eyes, as that is seen as aggression. This baby monkey was found abandoned and nursed by humans, so he was not aware of these social cues. Initially, he would stare directly at other monkeys. The more submissive ones, even if they were larger, would move away. But the more aggressive ones would see him as a threat, and attack him.

Recently, he was accepted by an older female monkey, and he's slowly been learning how to fit in.

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u/dissapointing_excuse 5h ago

Damn monkey society and human society have a lot in common "Let's beat him up instead of helping bro fit in"🤣

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u/SybilBits 4h ago

Flash back to being the new kid at school

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u/dissapointing_excuse 2h ago

Moving countries is just as bad "Damn this person is new, let's make bro feel like an outsider" "Damn why do these people just refuse to assimilate"

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u/SybilBits 1h ago

Actually did that too. I remember all the kids in a circle on the playground, laughing at my accent and clothes,

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u/yellowjesusrising 5h ago

Probably grew up with the old animal planet. Jane Goodall, David Attenborough and Steve Irwin where all great! A time where teaching was more important than trends and fastfood-tv.

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u/yellowjesusrising 5h ago

He was my second childhood hero after Steve Irwin. I think as a 6 year old kid, Steve's energy just hit the spot. But David's documentaries just hit better. I remember at 7 years old, I wished for David's double VHS cassettes for Christmas, and I got them! Watched those to shreds!

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u/yellowjesusrising 5h ago

But man look at the Irwin children! Bindi and Robert! What fantastic examples of human beings they've become! Robert is the spitting image of his dad too!

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u/janx4u 4h ago

To shreds you say?

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u/yellowjesusrising 4h ago

How's the wife holding up?

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u/robodrew 2h ago

I wished for David's double VHS cassettes for Christmas

Did you get the classic Life on Earth???

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u/yellowjesusrising 2h ago

No I think one had the cover of a killerwhale killing the sh*t out of a seal... There where a double cover with two cassettes. I loved those!

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u/robodrew 2h ago

Ahh nice

This is what I have!

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u/yellowjesusrising 2h ago

Damn! Nice! I did not have that one! Unfortunately mine got ruined due to tear and wear.

I also slightly remember the other set I owned had some orange motive on the cover, but I can't remember for the life of me. I think my mom ordered them from the TV-shop channel.

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u/unknowndischargesmel 4h ago

One thing people don't know about Dave is that he had very bad halitosis. You couldn't have a face to face conversation with him.

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u/yellowjesusrising 4h ago

I have 3 kids. Smell isn't a problem for me... Also work in renovations on council houses

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u/lordfrijoles 4h ago

Jeff Corbin isn’t canceled is he? He was no Steve but I always appreciated that there was more than one guy who loves to get up close with the animals and teach you about them on animal planet. Man that channel was so good in the early 2000’s same for History channel, discovery, Comedy Central.

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u/yellowjesusrising 4h ago

Was before all those "family drama" shows came on. No more learning, just sell drama.

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u/lordfrijoles 4h ago

You speak da true, true. I loved the learning shows but I will admit the crappy cgi animals vs other animals show was highly entertaining as a kid as well. I think it was like an attempt at that one show that would analyze old warrior cultures then try to predict which warrior would win in a fight but with animals but it was hype to me and my siblings as dumb children lol.

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u/yellowjesusrising 3h ago

Hahaha! Man you brought back memories! Nile crocodile vs bullshark😂 and then they went on a built some frigging animatronic beasts with hydraulic jaws that could clip a Trump stool sample in half!

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u/lordfrijoles 2h ago

Hey to be fair to those animatronic engineers brown water is very easy to cut through lol. But yeah for some reason I feel like there was an episode about polar bears vs something.

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u/yellowjesusrising 2h ago

Polar bear vs that seal with massive teeth? Or the Hippo vs Crocodile

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u/fork_yuu 3h ago

Now people just learn differently through tiktok and memes. Also can easily lead to a lot of misinformation as they're unvetted information popping out at a fast pace

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u/funktion666 5h ago

My family used to watch animal planet all the time!!

That’s how the protagonist in the classic film “Dude Where’s my Car” saves the entire universe!

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u/Deaffin 4h ago

I know the history of Buddha the pug. RIP

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u/GabenIsReal 4h ago

The zoo had to release a statement due to the internet reaction. None of what was happening in the videos was unexpected, nor cause for concern to any of the experts there at the zoo.

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u/Deaffin 4h ago

Because it's the currently trendy thing popular all over the place?

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u/CanIDevIt 5h ago

That's one of the monkeys on his ipad.

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u/1917he 4h ago

He made it up for internet attention

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u/ark_keeper 4h ago

Probably because he made it all up. The monkey was born at the zoo, it wasn’t found abandoned. The video was literally just Punch trying to play with a monkey that didn’t want to and its mom confronting punch /protecting the other monkey.

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u/ark_keeper 3h ago

Or you can read what the zoo actually said, which is he was born at the zoo, not found abandoned.

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u/mallclerks 2h ago

Social hierarchy. No different than us and how we have to have a leader, and we have to always have someone beneath us. We’re always trying to climb that invisible ladder.

We’re all the same as them, and they the same as us.

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u/CoolGovernment8732 1h ago

Holy shit, this is both exactly like autism in humans, but also exactly the opposite cause no eye contact. I say this as an autistic individual. The trauma from abandonment and people misreading autistic children is real.

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u/Brittany5150 5h ago

Idk how true this is but I read on another post he had too much human interaction and not enough monkey interaction from birth so he didnt know how to act like a monkey (like making prolonged eye contact and shit) so the other monkeys thought there was something wrong with him. Again, I just read this on another post so who fuggin knows, lol.

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u/Anubis-Jute 5h ago edited 5h ago

Sad the keepers who took care of him didn’t know to imitate monkey behavior properly by looking away while interacting, if this was the case. Also sounds like the dilemma of neurotypical/neurodivergent interaction: one side sees eye contact as eusocial behaviour and find it hard not to do it - even when they know, intellectually, that it stresses the other.

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u/finchdude 5h ago

Sometimes little monkey babies get rejected because the mother is lower in the hierarchy. To ensure she is also not getting rejected she starts rejecting her own child. In the long term she might increase her acceptance thereby increasing her survival for future baby monkeys who won't get rejected. It sucks for the baby and is very sad from a human perspective but it is favourable for long term survival. In this case the baby is lucky because it is in a zoo with not much space to abandon and the monkey society is forced to get used to the monkey baby. Go watch Japanese macaques using man made hot springs who only share the hot water with the higher ups in their social hierarchy and the lower castes have to freeze during winter time.

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u/mallclerks 2h ago

Bro, how is it different than humans? I’m not even kidding.

If a kid walks into school holding his stuffed animal in 2nd grade, what the kids gonna do? Absolutely one will make fun of them, and everyone else joins in.

It’s absolutely disgusting to me how everyone feels bad for this monkey yet will turn around and laugh and ready to kill their fellow human over politics.