It’s Loris Awareness Week!
Over the next week, we will share news and stories about slow lorises. Please check this page for updates. Prof Anna Nekaris will give…
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Loris Awareness Week Almost here! Prepare!
For those who have been following the Little Fireface Project, you will know that Loris Awareness week starts the 16th of September. This is…
Read MoreAccolades to Indian enforcement and rescue teams: pygmy lorises in India doing well!
You may have seen the comments left on our site from Mr Rohit Upadhyaya, terminal manager of IGI Airport, New Delhi, where two pygmy…
Read MoreLatest international smuggling of pygmy slow loris
From IndiaTVNews – amended where appropriate. New Delhi, Sep 10 : Two rare Slow Loris ‘monkeys ‘were seized by alert CISF guards at Delhi’s Indira…
Read MoreLoris Fact 7: The Myth About Loris Nurseries
The famous ‘Tickling Slow Loris Video’ uploaded in 2009 by Dmitry Sergeyev includes the following note by the uploaders… 1. First of all, we…
Read MoreLoris Fact 6: You can’t chew with somebody else’s teeth
Well that’s a Yiddish proverb, but the loris would agree, and most lorises really love their teeth. Being strepsirrhine primates, lorises have really neat…
Read MoreLoris Fact 5: Communication and Collaboration to Save Lorises!
This post is a not so much a fact but a story from the field from our research fellow Sisil Putri.The FACT is that…
Read MoreLoris fact 4: CITES…a little lesson
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is a multilateral treaty that entered into force on 1 July 1975. Its aim is…
Read MoreLoris Fact 3: I wanna hold your hand! Loris hands and feet…
Loris Awareness Week Fact 3: The anatomy: Like all primates, lorises have grasping hands and feet…to an extreme. To put it anatomically, the hands and…
Read MoreLoris Fact 2: Babies the weight of paperclips? Slow loris!
Fireface Slow Loris Awareness Week Fact 2 is about slow loris reproduction! No one can resist the fluffball that is a loris infant, except…
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