Below is a list of LFP staff and student talks at the European Federation of Primatology’s congress in Rome. We’re very excited to be involved in such a fantastic meeting of like-minded professionals to share the knowledge we gain here about slow lorises!

Wednesday 26th August (poster sessions)

17:30     Priscillia Miard, K. Anne-Isola Nekaris
              First field surveys and Red List assessment of two Bornean slow                                        lorises (Nycticebus menagensis and N. kayan) using local knowledge in Sabah,                 Borneo.

17:30     Siobhan Webster, Louisa Musing, Asier Vazquez, K. Anne-Isola Nekaris
              Public perceptions of threatened slow lorises (Nycticebus spp.) on Web 2.0 sites               and implications for social media reporting policies. 

Thursday 27th August

10:15     K. Anne-Isola Nekaris, Nabajit Das
              Venom in Furs: pelage variation and its implications for slow loris evolution

13:45     Francis Cabana, K. Anne-Isola Nekaris
              Gimme more: Exudates do not characterise a fallback food in the diet of the                         Javan slow loris (Nycticebus javanicus).

15:30     Kathleen D. Reinhardt, Wirdateti, K. Anne-Isola Nekaris
              Relationships between altitude, habitat structure and behaviour of Nycticebus                      javanicus in a submontane agroforest.

Friday 28th August

12:15     Vincent Nijman, Wirdateti, K. Anne-Isola Nekaris
              Primate trade on Java – an overview of 25 years of market surveys. 

15:30     Averee Luhrs, Simon K. Bearder, K. Anne-Isola Nekaris
             The prospective use of occupancy modelling as a tool for monitoring potto                           (Perodicticus ibeanus) populations in Kibale National Forest, Uganda.