Punch the orphan macaque outgrowing plushie and making friends

The baby monkey is a resident at Ichikawa City Zoo near Tokyo (Hiro Komae/AP)

Punch the baby orphan macaque is outgrowing the orangutan soft toy that comforted him through early rejection from his mother and other monkeys.

Images of Punch dragging around the plushie that is bigger than he is drew attention to the residents of a zoo near Tokyo, Japan. When other monkeys shooed the baby away, Punch rushed back to the toy orangutan, hugging it for comfort.