The slow loris includes all the species of the genus Nycticebus, which range from Northeast India to Southeast Asia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Much still isn’t known about the genus ...

Lorises exhibit many quirky evolutionary adaptations, such as exceedingly slow locomotion, the ability to hibernate (which makes them unique among Asian primates), and their capacity to deliver a ...

Meet Memphis Zoo's venomous but adorable new addition: a ping pong ball-sized pygmy slow loris. The tiny primate, who has not yet been named, was born on Dec. 13 to Samper and Artemis at the ...

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 ...

A never-ending fascination for the slow loris, a nocturnal primate native to Southeast Asia, drives Stephanie Poindexter’s research into conservation of the endangered species. Several drawings in ...

The newest addition to the Memphis Zoo's primate gang, a ping pong ball-sized pygmy slow loris, is being hand-raised behind the scenes, the zoo announced Monday. Born on Dec. 13, the rare and ...