With their enormous eyes and fluffy fur, slow lorises look like tiny stuffed animals—but they are actually the world’s only ...
(MENAFN- Pressat) A new report by Indonesian conservation organisation Yayasan Inisiasi Alam Rehabilitasi Indonesia (YIARI), in partnership with UK-based charity International Animal Rescue, ...
Conservationists are concerned that the popularity of social media videos depicting lorises as pets is stoking the illegal and often abusive pet trade, placing pressure on already flagging numbers in ...
NEW TO THE ZOO: Twin pygmy slow lorises were born at the Little Rock Zoo Nov. 18. Credit: Little Rock Zoo There’s cute stuff happening over at the Little Rock Zoo. On Nov. 18, the zoo welcomed two ...
Some of the cutest creatures in the animal kingdom are actually among the most dangerous. They may look soft, fluffy, or even harmless, but they can attack, poison, or seriously injure people when ...
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, ...
(While on the island of Phuket last week, Rihanna was photographed with a slow loris. As a result, some loris-traffickers were arrested.) According to Oxford Brooks University, "loris" is Dutch for ...
Cute and fuzzy but also vicious and venomous, Javan slow lorises have been driven to the brink of extinction by habitat destruction and the illegal pet trade. The Little Fireface Project in West Java ...