The Smithsonian Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute has welcome two rare endangered slow lorises and they are the first of their species born at the zoo. This is so important because these tiny ...

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.

The Lake Superior Zoo announced the birth of two more Pygmy Slow Lorises, bringing the family total up to six. The babies were a surprise to the zookeepers, as it’s difficult to know when these ...

NEW ARRIVALS AT ZOO: Little Rock Zoo photo of pygmy lorises. The world needs some cute animal pix: Such as the twin pygmy slow lorises born at the Little Rock Zoo in June. Release: The Little Rock Zoo ...

GALVESTON, Texas (CW39) – Moody Gardens has welcomed a rare and tiny new arrival — the birth of a pygmy slow loris, one of the world’s most endangered primates. The male was born August 18, 2025, at ...

For the first time, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) is celebrating the birth of two pygmy slow lorises, an endangered species. Small Mammal House keepers ...

The animal was born Wednesday, Feb. 24 to 9-year-old mother Gouda and 9-year-old father Muenster. Zoo News: A pygmy slow loris was born on February 24 to 9-year-old mom, Gouda, and 9-year-old father, ...

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, ...

The baby loris was born at the Ohio on February 24 to parents Gouda and Muenster. Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared ...

There are some new babies at The Lake Superior Zoo. The twin Pygmy Slow Lorises are the first offspring of parents Colby and Giorgio. Zoo officials say the babies were discovered by Nocturnal and ...