I’ve been thinking a lot today about Punch-kun, the Japanese macaque monkey who went viral this week. Rejected by his mother for reasons only she knows. Hand-raised by zookeepers. Given an IKEA orangutan plushy as a surrogate. People woke up crying over videos of him trying to be accepted by his troop. And honestly, I get it. I felt that immediate instinct to protect him. To scoop him up. To say, someone, please love this baby. But I also wondered why Punch hit such a nerve.