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 ...
One video was viewed over 400,000 times in one day; we couldn’t get enough. When cute is a curse Slow lorises are small primates. The 5 species of slow loris currently recognised are adapted to ...
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 ...