Slow Loris Outreach Week Success!
By Anna Nekaris My journey to study Asia’s lorises began in 1993 at a conference at Duke University’s Primate Centre (now the Duke Lemur…
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Kinder Surprise!
S.L.O.W. – Slow Loris Outreach Week means that as environmental education manager I get to share a LOT of loris love this week! Every…
Read MoreVictims of the photo prop trade: Helping slow lorises be slow lorises!
By Stephanie Poindexter I have been I have been mesmerized by the physical agility of primates for as long as I can remember.…
Read MoreSlow loris venom can kill humans
Field biologist and conservationist George Madani describes his near-death experience with a slow loris. This account is soon to be published as a medical…
Read MoreCrossing International Borders: The Trade of Slow Lorises (Nycticebus spp.) in Japan
By Louisa Musing MSc Primate Conservation student 2013-2014 It was their eyes, those large, captivating eyes that first caught my attention. © Andrew Walmsley…
Read MoreNow for those who like something a little slender with their loris…
By Emma Williams I was lucky enough to go to Sri Lanka to study the Endangered Northern Ceylon grey slender loris Loris lydekkerianus…
Read MoreFirst Nights in Loris Land
Swinging out on a loose branch, feet dangling in the air and scrambling to catch something to rest on over a messy expanse of…
Read MoreLove Can Move Mountains … Or Make You Climb Them
The collars that we use to track our lorises with are very light and we have never known the collar to be a cause…
Read MoreAnd the Oscar goes to …
It was the first time I was going to an animal market in Indonesia. I knew all about it, I knew it would be…
Read More2014 Race Against Extinction
On 11 April 2014, the 2014 Race Against Extinction…Footprints for the Future was held at Hitchcock Nature Center. American Association of Zoo keepers, Omaha…
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