The Smithsonian Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute has welcome two rare endangered slow lorises and they are the first of their species born at the zoo. This is so important because these tiny ...

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 Memphis ...

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 animal was born Wednesday, Feb. 24 to 9-year-old mother Gouda and 9-year-old father Muenster. Zoo News: A pygmy slow loris was born on February 24 to 9-year-old mom, Gouda, and 9-year-old father, ...

The baby loris was born at the Ohio on February 24 to parents Gouda and Muenster. Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark — Editors note: The video shown above is from June 2021. The Little Rock Zoo announced the birth of a boy and girl set of twin pygmy slow lorises. The twins were born in June to dad, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian National Zoo has something to celebrate. For the very first time, pygmy slow loris babies were born at the zoo. The two new babies are an endangered species. On March 21, ...

With a pair of teddy bear eyes, a button nose, and face that looks like a cross between a red panda and a sloth, the Javan slow loris may well be one of the cutest critters on the planet. But what we ...

A Bornean orangutan has been filmed eating a slow loris—the first time this behavior has been seen in this population of orangutans. Orangutan diets are composed primarily of fruit. they also eat ...

DULUTH — Pygmy slow lorises got their name for a reason, but a pair at the Lake Superior Zoo have been moving fast when it comes to baby-making. The latest pygmy slow loris twins born in Duluth are ...