Slow lorises are a study in contradictions. With wide eyes and furry bodies, these slow-moving, pint-sized primates look like cuddly stuffed animals. But their venom-filled bites can rot flesh and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Others carry diseases that can be life-threatening. The slow loris is a small, round-eyed primate that looks like a living teddy bear. With its big eyes and soft fur, it seems harmless.

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 ...