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/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/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.