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Anna is a freelance writer with far too much time on her hands. When she&#8217;s not writing about memes and internet slang, she can be found running TTRPGs online.

Anna Good

“Just leave her alone!”: Fans shame man who broke into Moo Deng’s enclosure at Thai zoo—just to get a better photo

Punch the Monkey—who went viral for being lonely—has found a new companion

Rebecca Leib

Left: 6-month-old baby monkey named Punch clutching a stuffed orange Ikea orangutan plushie. Right: Man working out, text overlay reads, "Training to fight the monkeys who bullied Plush."

Culture

Punch the bullied baby monkey is everyone’s favorite new sad boy meme

Left: Text reading "Chickens, rabbits and guinea pigs make up an important part of the diet of our predators" Right: Female Indian tiger

“No heart whatsoever”: Danish zoo slammed after asking people to donate their pets to feed tigers and lynxes

Kyle Calise is a video producer, writer, and storyteller from southern New England. When he’s not crafting explainer and culture videos, he’s usually out on a nature trail admiring trees.

Kyle Calise

Meme History: Moo Deng

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Anti-vax movement rallies around giraffe deaths

Sunny Kim studied journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. She&#8217;s a former editorial intern with the Daily Dot. Her work has appeared in the Daily Texan and Popular Mechanics.

Sunny Kim

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Twitter has heart eyes for these baby red pandas at the Cincinnati Zoo

Jay Hathaway is a former senior writer who specialized in internet memes and weird online culture. He previously served as the Daily Dot’s news editor, was a staff writer at Gawker, and edited the classic websites Urlesque and Download Squad. His work has also appeared on nymag.com, suicidegirls.com, and the Morning News.

Jay Hathaway

Cincinnati Zoo ‘not amused’ by Harambe memes—but the internet’s not done mourning

Daily Dot Contributor

George W. Bush met Harambe’s mom in the ’90s, shocking photo reveals

Teen petitions Dublin Zoo to name baby gorilla Harambe Jr.

Prankster leaves fake animal facts all over the L.A. Zoo

Harambe the gorilla lives on in beautifully tasteless memes

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Columbus Zoo makes an animal-packed Taylor Swift music video to invite her to visit

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