Overview
- New zoo updates and visitor videos show Punch being carefully groomed by other macaques, indicating early social integration.
- Handlers report a calmer enclosure atmosphere, though the infant still clings to caregivers and frequently carries his IKEA orangutan plush.
- The zoo has limited viewing times and closed parts of platforms to reduce stress after attendance spiked into the thousands on recent weekends.
- IKEA donated additional plush toys and related items on February 17 and says the Djungelskog orangutan is being restocked after sales jumps in Japan, the United States, and South Korea, with Singapore reporting sellouts.
- Primatologists and the zoo describe past rough interactions as normal hierarchy and disciplinary behavior, noting the initial maternal rejection likely reflected inexperience and environmental stress.