A stuffed orangutan will be taken from the Japanese macaque Punch

Ichikawa Zoo staff will take a stuffed orangutan from the orphan macaque Punch, who replaced his mother. This was reported by The Tab.

According to the publication, Punch currently continues to live with the toy, but this will not always be the case. It is specified that usually the cubs of Japanese macaques begin to spend more time moving away from their relatives or, in the case of Punch, toys at the age of six months.

Punch has recently reached this age, so soon he will have to leave his toy friend and find a real one.

"Providing soft toys and towels to hold onto not only simulates attachment to the mother, but also prevents excessive dependence on people. This approach is also used for other <...> primates raised [by humans] in our zoo, not just for Japanese macaques," said representatives of the zoo in Ichikawa.

The zoo also recalled a similar case in 2009, when a macaque named Otome also grew up with a stuffed toy, but eventually naturally abandoned it, and later became a mother and grandmother herself. The staff expressed hope that Punch would have a similar future.

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Global Times magazine reported on February 23 that about 200 Siberian tigers in a zoo in China were put on a diet after the Chinese New Year. The animals were transferred to the rotational program of "interval starvation" against the background of a sharp increase in feeding.

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