David Cooper

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There you go.

So Punch became friends with this toy.

And anytime Punch was punched or bullied, he would run to this toy and hug it and cuddle it and caress it and drag it all over the place.

And it became this big viral moment.

But what is beautiful about this story is Punch has gained confidence and has learned how to work within the social hierarchy.

He is now being seen standing up for himself and screaming at the monkeys that have been bullying him.

And he's actually made not fake friends, but real friends now within the group.

So it's this beautiful viral story.

But what I found fascinating is this sort of proves, I mean, we already knew it was true, but this showcases a theory of attachment, it's called, back that was created or back that was discovered in 1950s.

So back in the 1950s, animal behaviorists, and humans are considered animals as well,

believed in what they called the behaviorist theory, that we become attached to a parenting figure, one that gives us the necessities of life.

For me, it's my therapist.

Well, their theory prior to the 1950s was it was whoever gave you food, shelter, water, nutrients.

But what this study actually proved was that monkeys, therefore probably people, are more attached with those that give us the emotional requirements, the cuddling, the love, the support.

This study is a little barbaric.

We don't treat monkeys this way anymore.

But what they did was they took a group of rhesus monkeys and they took them away from their mothers when they were quite young.

They stuck them in a confined space all by themselves.

And in the confined space, there were two monkeys.