Fieldwork Then & Now: Slow Loris Outreach Week 2019
As we embark on our 8th annual Slow Loris Outreach Week (you can see resources here!), as the Director of the Little Fireface Project,…
Read MoreTag: behavioural ecology
Dangerous Dispersal Drawing Competition!
The last week’s have seen a major change in our wild slow loris social groups. This has resulted in some dangerous dispersals by two…
Read More
Slow lorises (Nycticebus spp.) display evidence of handedness in the wild and in captivity
New research assessing slow loris handedness in the wild and in captivity has been published this week (Monday 2 April). A team of researchers from…
Read More
A wonderful LFP experience
Hi to everyone reading my blog, hopefully it will deliver a message about why we should care about wildlife, especially the Javan Slow Loris…
Read MoreCu Li Tuesday: Houdini Cu Li!!
by Stephanie Poindexter As I mentioned in my last Cu Li Tuesday update here in at the EPRC in Viet Nam, we regularly…
Read MoreLFP’s Infant Dispersal Study
With the recent onset of the wet season I’ve noticed a few changes in our lorises behaviour’. They seem to groom more, which is…
Read MoreSome loris love for St Valentine’s!
So are they naughty little animals, hot-footing it from one partner to another? Are loris families torn apart by philandering fathers? No! Endearingly, early…
Read MoreNew Videos to Counteract YouTube Horrors – Slow Loris
For many of us, slow lorises are cute. You can put them in a pile of garbage and they still look just that!! CUTE!…
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 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 More