However, this practice is incredibly cruel and one of the main reasons Slow Lorises are facing such a daunting conservation status. Sign the petition and ask the government of Bangladesh to regulate deforestation and protect the slow loris. I must say, the idea of venomous primates never crossed my mind. Even putting aside the pet demand they create, IAR said, tickling is a nightmare for slow lorises. YouTube ‘pets’ having teeth ripped out and verging on extinction. If this deforestation does not come to an end, the endangered species will go extinct. They are expert in catching insects, and often capture those that have a particularly pungent odor, which the lorises can track with their keen sense of smell. Videos of the slow loris on Youtube have racked up millions of views. Lorises are arboreal and nocturnal, curling up to sleep by day. The pygmy slow loris (Nycticebus pygmaeus) is a species of slow loris found east of the Mekong River in Vietnam, Laos, eastern Cambodia, and China.It occurs in a variety of forest habitats, including tropical dry forests, semi-evergreen, and evergreen forests.The animal is nocturnal and arboreal, crawling along branches using slow movements in search of prey. If You Watch Slow Loris Videos on YouTube, Are You Threatening the Species’ Survival?
And IAR, which runs the largest slow loris center in the world, has launched the Tickling Is Torture campaign to raise awareness about how these videos affect lorises like Cepat. Many will know the Slow Loris only as the cute little creature with big eyes that likes to be tickled under its arms. They have soft gray or brown fur and can be recognized by their huge eyes encircled by dark patches and by their short index fingers. Loris, any of about 10 species of tailless or short-tailed South and Southeast Asian forest primates. But the truth is, these videos are torture. Slow loris by Frans Lanting.

The Bengal slow loris is facing extreme habitat and food loss due to deforestation. The pygmy slow loris diet also includes a fair amount of animal protein, which comprises perhaps as much as 33% of the total. Javan Slow Loris Conservation. Photo from The Guardian. While venomous species do exist in mammals, it is much more common in insects, reptiles and fishes. In primates, slow lorises (genus Nycticebus) are though to be venomous in Thai folklore (Wilde, 1972) but are they…