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.

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 ...

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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 ...

The newest addition to the Memphis Zoo's primate gang, a ping pong ball-sized pygmy slow loris, is being hand-raised behind the scenes, the zoo announced Monday. Born on Dec. 13, the rare and ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC/Gray News) - The Memphis Zoo has announced its newest animal and he’s so small he can fit in your pocket. A baby pygmy slow loris — a very rare and endangered nocturnal primate — ...

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, ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark — Editors note: The video shown above is from June 2021. The Little Rock Zoo announced the birth of a boy and girl set of twin pygmy slow lorises. The twins were born in June to dad, ...

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