This story appears in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. After videos of slow lorises being tickled and fed rice balls in captivity swept the Internet, the wide-eyed animals ...
With its big, doe-like eyes, the slow loris looks like a living stuffed animal. But hidden in its elbows is a toxic secretion that it spreads onto its teeth, delivering a venomous bite.
There’s no doubt the slow loris is a cuddly cutie from central casting. It is an animal that could easily have been dreamed up in the studios of the Disney Corporation of the 1950s and I’m afraid that ...