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🎙️The Ensemble: Monkey Business, a Solemn War Anniversary and Empathy Across the Lines

Into the gaping void left by the end of Winter Olympics strides a single baby monkey...

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Jamie Angus, Suzanne Kianpour, Anastasia O'Reilly, and Veronika Kolosova
Feb 24, 2026
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Sometimes we get the hero we need - Punch is a tiny macaque in a Tokyo zoo who has been bullied by the other members of his pack after being rejected by his mother, takes comfort in his stuffed toy orangutang, and has now thoroughly broken the internet. There’s something about zoo animal stories that speaks to all of us (see also Harambe…) - and I guess…

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