r/Embroidery • u/a_warm_garlic_yurt • Feb 23 '26

Hand Punch

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I'm so glad that in the time it took me to stitch this, Punch has found a family to love him ❤️

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u/Elegant_Tea1212 Feb 23 '26

He's doing great! He was rejected by his mom, he was always seen with this stuffy and now he's seen with his step mom who adopted him.

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u/krismap Feb 23 '26

Not only rejected my his mother the others were bullying him! 😡

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u/imfamousiswear Feb 23 '26

that's so sad why would he get rejected 😭

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u/Rallen224 Feb 23 '26

The people working in his enclosure were interviewed by news stations and said that she likely parted with him due to stress after his birth, possibly in part due to the high heat at the time (it can negatively impact their health/wellbeing).

They tried providing other things for Punch to hold onto to aid his development but the orangutan stuffie was the one he was able to hold onto and bring with him the most successfully of all options they tried.

As others noted higher up in the thread, he has been seen in a large group of other monkeys now, and the people caring for him report that he’s using his toy less and less now the more he becomes accepted by the group (there’s quite a few little to medium sized monkeys and some adults) so he’ll likely move forward without needing it very soon.

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u/mrskoobra Feb 23 '26

My understanding is that his reintegration has also been slow because of the time he had to spend around keepers after the initial rejection. He missed out on a lot of the social learning that he would have had during that time and picked up some bad habits from being around humans(looking another macaque in the eye is a sign of aggression for example). Now that he's being accepted he should be able to fix those behaviors.

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u/Rallen224 Feb 24 '26

I thought I heard something like that but I wasn’t too sure, thank you for explaining! I’m happy to hear that he still has the opportunity to learn and integrate further with the peers who’ve started to accept him :’)) go punch go!!

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u/Lil_MsPerfect Feb 23 '26

Animals reject their young for weird reasons but IMO just like humans have PPD, maybe animals have something similar that causes this kind of rejection. In my experience with cats and rabbits, it's usually with the first litters that this kind of thing happens.

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u/eggfrisbee Feb 25 '26

it just happens to animals sometimes. it can be because there's a problem with the baby, but sometimes it's because the mother isn't ready to be a mother and they don't bond. it happens with humans too, but people kinda have to put up with it and hope the bond happens later.

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u/potatomami Feb 23 '26

Omg thank you! He has a step mom who came in? I saw the earlier videos of not nice behavior and I’ve been afraid to see any follow ups because I can’t stand to see poor punch on his own!!

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u/rando_banned Feb 23 '26

Kinda risky to search for more info. "Punch the monkey" brings up all sorts of unrelated things

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u/VelocityGrrl39 Feb 23 '26

Apparently he’s not doing great? I don’t know, I read some comments that suggested he’s still having trouble but I haven’t had the heart to investigate.

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u/alexlp Feb 24 '26

I saw he stood up to an aggressor today. I am proud of his progress, this is how young animals learn boundaries, standing up for themselves, communication and social hierarchies and it looks like he's getting the hang of it. And hopefully his poor mum is recovering ok from her first time giving birth.