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The lovable but deadly slow loris monkeys, which are gaining popularity for their videos that go viral on the Internet, are a little-known member of the primate family. Known for their laziness and even called the lazy loris, these primates generally live in Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n
The slow loris, which is at the bottom of the primate class and is the only venomous primate, is included in the list of mortars in danger of extinction. Due to the insufficient fossil record of the slow loris species, we do not have enough information about their evolutionary history.<\/p>\n
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Some known species of loris are: Pygmy loris, sunda slow loris, javan slow loris, bengal slow loris, nycticebus floating loris, philippine slow loris. They have rather small dimensions. Their length varies from 7 to 40 cm. They have rounded heads, hairless ears, narrow noses, large eyes, and different color patterns depending on the species. Their fur is in shades of gray and brown. Their arms and legs are of equal length and they have very thin legs. Their trunks are quite long and flexible. Hands and feet are such that they can easily hang and grasp nearby branches. Loris do not have a tail.<\/p>\n
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Thanks to their large eyes, they have good vision in low light, while they have blurry vision when the light is high. For this reason, loris live an active life at night and sleep during the day. They are known as nocturnal animals.<\/p>\n
The second of the slow loris’ toes is smaller compared to the other toes to allow it to grip easily. Behind the retina of its large eyes is a layer called the tapetum lucidum, which allows the eye to both shine and see at night. Thanks to this layer, it is possible to say that loris can see better at night than many animals.<\/p>\n
Alan Knight, chief executive of the International Animal Rescue Team in England, said of slow loris: “Loris cannot run as fast as squirrels. They act like sloths. During our studies, even when moving the loris from one place to another, they wake up slowly and look around from the box they are in a drowsy state. If they feel like walking, they get up and start walking.\u201d The movements of the slow loris resemble a snake. The scientific reason for this is that loris have more spinal vertebrae than other primates.<\/p>\n
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Loris have other protection tactics besides their poisonous arms. Camouflage is one of the loris’ defense techniques. A loris guards its territory. As it tries to protect itself from other creatures, it will try to protect the area it is in from its own kind. The slow loris is a territorial animal.<\/p>\n
If the venomous primate has nowhere to run and is literally cornered, it will bite its opponent. When it puts its teeth on an animal, it not only harms them, but also kidnaps other animals in the environment, thanks to the bad smell the poison produces. It is said that the smell that comes out is very sharp and indescribably bad.<\/p>\n
Loris pretends to be a cobra to scare her enemies. This is his secret weapon. He slowly shakes his head from side to side, raising his arms and shoulders as if he were a cobra. The fur pattern of loris is similar to the skin of cobras. If they cannot frighten their enemies with their dance, the reptile will hiss and manage to frighten them.<\/p>\n
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The diet of these primates is very diverse. While some loris eat only fruit and trees, some loris can eat anything. There are both carnivorous and herbivorous species. One of the reasons why their diets differ so much is due to the variability of their habitat and conditions. Nycticebus Coucang has the longest tongue of all primates. He uses this tongue to drink the juice in the fruit.<\/p>\n
While some loris species survive only in tropical forests, some species can live in savanna climate or dry forests. Just like their movements, the development of loris is quite slow compared to other night creatures and they complete their development in a long time.<\/p>\n
Other than humans, their other predators are orangutans, hawks, eagles and snakes. They stand still when attacked. They can lick the secretion obtained from a gland in their arms and combine it with their saliva to obtain poison. They keep predators away, thanks to the venom they produce. They get this poison in their arm from the hundreds of poisonous bugs they eat in the forest.<\/p>\n
At the same time, they can protect the baby loris by applying this poison to their fur. If you were to be bitten by a slow loris, you would start to feel a lot of edema and intense pain throughout your body. According to the Indonesian people, the bite of a snake is much less painful than the bite of a loris.<\/p>\n