Accolades to Indian enforcement and rescue teams: pygmy lorises in India doing well!
You may have seen the comments left on our site from Mr Rohit Upadhyaya, terminal manager of IGI Airport, New Delhi, where two pygmy…
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Latest international smuggling of pygmy slow loris
From IndiaTVNews – amended where appropriate. New Delhi, Sep 10 : Two rare Slow Loris ‘monkeys ‘were seized by alert CISF guards at Delhi’s Indira…
Read MoreLoris Fact 7: The Myth About Loris Nurseries
The famous ‘Tickling Slow Loris Video’ uploaded in 2009 by Dmitry Sergeyev includes the following note by the uploaders… 1. First of all, we…
Read MoreLoris fact 4: CITES…a little lesson
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is a multilateral treaty that entered into force on 1 July 1975. Its aim is…
Read MoreLoris Fact 3: I wanna hold your hand! Loris hands and feet…
Loris Awareness Week Fact 3: The anatomy: Like all primates, lorises have grasping hands and feet…to an extreme. To put it anatomically, the hands and…
Read MoreLoris Fact 2: Babies the weight of paperclips? Slow loris!
Fireface Slow Loris Awareness Week Fact 2 is about slow loris reproduction! No one can resist the fluffball that is a loris infant, except…
Read MoreLoris Fact 1: Seeing in the dark!
Until slow loris awareness week, we shall now bring you slow loris facts of the day! Today we discuss the big beautiful eyes of…
Read MoreLittle Firefaces: Why YouTube loves the slow loris
Café Scientifique presents: Little firefaces: why YouTube loves the slow loris The name Little Fireface comes from the Sundanese name for slow loris, muka…
Read MoreLoris Awareness Week Coming Soon!
In about one month’s time, on 17th September, we will launch Loris Awareness Week! Before this time you will see many exciting additions to…
Read MoreReducing Stress in Captive Lorises
One of my MSc Primate Conservation students Andy Gray at Oxford Brookes describes her research project helping care for slow lorises without teeth! Andy…
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