An Ikea stuffed orangutan has sold out after Punch, the abandoned baby macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan, stole the hearts of many when a video showed him dragging the plushie around his enclosure.
The child monkey was abandoned by his mother at birth and raised by zoo staff, in accordance with the zoo’s website. The stuffed animal was given to Punch to function a surrogate mother and supply comfort for the now seven-month-old macaque.
Punch’s fame soared to latest levels last week when a video posted to social media showed him being dragged across the bottom by a bigger macaque. After the interaction, Punch ran to his plushie and hugged it while just a few other macaques got here to examine on him.
Shortly after, Ikea shared a post of a monkey hugging the plushie they known as “Punch’s comfort orangutan.”
“We’re ALL Punch’s family now,” it wrote within the caption.
Punch’s stuffed orangutan from Ikea’s Djungelskog line of youngsters’s toys was selling for $14.99 in Canada but now it is totally sold out.
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For the reason that toy isn’t any longer available at Ikea online, resellers are raising the value and listing the plushie on eBay, where it’s now being sold for $100 — and even reaching $301.
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