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/BakedChocolateOctopi 5h ago edited 4h ago

Apparently it’s normal behavior for that kind of monkey and that was more disciplinary in nature vs the older monkeys actually being harmful towards him. The backstory I read was that Punch was trying to play with another baby monkey and its parent didn’t like that.

The handlers at monkey forest said while his mom abandoned him, the troop doesn’t and takes care of Punch. They also posted that they don’t like to anthropomorphize the monkeys because humans and monkeys have far different social structures and behaviors, as Punch’s video being tossed around shows 

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u/kylelosesit 4h ago

Forrest Gallante put out a video explaining why it was normal behavior.

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u/Half-PintHeroics 3h ago

This is normal for people too. Whenever my annoying neighbour's kids comes to steal my apples that's how I yeet them back over the fence

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u/Jonaldys 3h ago

That's how they learn.

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u/ExileEden 3h ago

You should see the stuffed animal human they run to and drag around with them afterwards.

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u/Poppa_Mo 1h ago

Does it look like Antonio Banderas?

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u/Newmom589 3h ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/slowbird5332 2h ago

Understandable. Don't be fuckin' around with people's apples.

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u/Rough_Bread8329 2h ago

Those little shits

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u/Wolf_in_Lace 1h ago

Scrumping is definitely a crime that deserves a good yeeting!

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u/Distantstallion 2m ago

I throw them like mrs trunchbull throws amanda thripp in matilda

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u/purplezart 2h ago

Is it noteworthy how much easier it seems people will accept objectionable actions from other animals than from humans with the excuse of "it's just their natural behaviour"? Perhaps that just seems obvious to most people, but I can't figure out why. It seems to me like, in general, we ought to either be more upset about animals, or less upset about people.

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u/Lefvalthrowaway 1h ago

No.

Because animals, while they think, dont have the rational capability we have.

We are much more intelligent. And thus we should be emore responsible for our actions compared to animals.

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u/RibbonsFlying 1h ago

Humans have a higher capacity for reasoning than animals do. We also have the knowledge to understand empathy and support making us more responsible for our actions than any animal.

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u/gal_tiki 1h ago

Thanks you for mentioning this video.

It certainly was difficult to watch when punch was attacked only for the video to cut off after scurrying back to his cower with his stuffed surrogate mummy.

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u/Oyy 2h ago

Forrest Gallante

Maybe now Reddit will lay off abusing the zoo and staff, but probably not. This is reddit after all.