{"id":899345,"date":"2026-04-17T03:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/899345\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T03:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:20:23","slug":"meet-the-latest-baby-monkey-finding-comfort-in-a-plush-companion-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/899345\/","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":899346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3847],"tags":[47671,393,99646,253496,44888,70433,252298,2122,48279,2697,47681,59502,17742,457,2249,198061,70,10031,93,30364,16,15,12735,1717],"class_list":["post-899345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-color-image","tag-england","tag-friendly-match","tag-headshot","tag-horizontal","tag-international-match","tag-international-team-soccer","tag-japan","tag-london-england","tag-marc-guehi","tag-match-sport","tag-national-team","tag-one-person","tag-people","tag-photography","tag-rear-view","tag-science","tag-soccer","tag-sport","tag-stadium","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wembley-stadium","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116417896515444733","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}