DULUTH — Pygmy slow lorises got their name for a reason, but a pair at the Lake Superior Zoo have been moving fast when it comes to baby-making. The latest pygmy slow loris twins born in Duluth are ...
LORIS, SC (WMBF) - Nonprofit Giving Hope Gardens follows the motto, “Growing plants and people,” serving as a unique outlet for adults with special needs. The garden located on Monroe Street in Loris ...
They sleep during the day and forage at night. They can’t jump, but they’re excellent climbers. They have huge round eyes. And — unique among primates — they have a venomous bite. Meet slow lorises.
IMAGES of these cute primates being tickled have become a social media sensation — but the truth behind these videos will make you never share them again. That is the message of a new campaign to ...
One of the Milwaukee County Zoo's pygmy slow lorises looks out of the enclosure at the small mammals building. The animal is nicknamed "little fire face" because of the markings on their face. Last ...
DULUTH — "It's super dark in there, and I can see their little glowing eyes," zookeeper Bethany Wright said. On the morning of March 1, checking in on the Lake Superior Zoo's pair of pygmy slow ...
In early 2009, a man in St. Petersburg, Russia, uploaded a video onto YouTube in which his pet pygmy slow loris — a small, threatened Asian primate — gets tickled. The video quickly went viral, ...
Adult male slow loris showing venomous saliva. Source: Andrew Walmsley, used with permission. The slow loris seems adorable. But its puppy-dog eyes and charming face mask belie its wild nature: These ...
A Bornean orangutan has been filmed eating a slow loris—the first time this behavior has been seen in this population of orangutans. Orangutan diets are composed primarily of fruit. they also eat ...
Lorises exhibit many quirky evolutionary adaptations, such as exceedingly slow locomotion, the ability to hibernate (which makes them unique among Asian primates), and their capacity to deliver a ...