Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the Milwaukee County Zoo's pygmy slow lorises looks out of the enclosure at the small mammals building. The animal is ...

For the first time, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) is celebrating the birth of two pygmy slow lorises, an endangered species. Small Mammal House keepers ...

The slow loris hardly looks dangerous with its huge, round eyes, soft fur, and tiny hands gripping tree branches; the animal almost resembles a plush toy someone forgot in the forest. That appearance ...

The birth was the first primate for the Zoo’s newly reopened World of Darkness exhibit. Adult pygmy slow lorises weigh about one pound, and are found exclusively in the bamboo and forests of Southeast ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — They sleep during the day and forage at night. They can’t jump, but they’re excellent climbers. They have huge round eyes. And — unique among primates — they have a venomous bite. Meet ...

While they may look like innocent, wide-eyed plush toys on social media, slow lorises hide a far more violent reality. New research from 2026 shows that for these endangered primates, returning to the ...

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 ...