A very small, very rare, and very nocturnal new resident is the latest animal to be born at the Bronx Zoo. Zoo officials have ...

One of the Milwaukee County Zoo's pygmy slow lorises looks out of the enclosure at the small mammals building. The animal is nicknamed "little fire face" because of the markings on their face. Last ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A study released Oct. 19 in the journal Current Biology reveals that slow lorises use their venom not only against other species, but also against ...

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 slow lorises.

Cambridge, UK, 26th May 2010—A study by researchers from Malaysia, Australia and the UK finds that levels of trade in Slow and Slender Lorises is at levels that may be detrimental to their survival.

Cute and fuzzy but also vicious and venomous, Javan slow lorises have been driven to the brink of extinction by habitat destruction and the illegal pet trade. The Little Fireface Project in West Java ...

NEW ARRIVALS AT ZOO: Little Rock Zoo photo of pygmy lorises. The world needs some cute animal pix: Such as the twin pygmy slow lorises born at the Little Rock Zoo in June. Release: The Little Rock Zoo ...

These tiny residents of the El Paso Zoo will have you seeing double. The zoo has announced the arrival of a pair of twin slow lorises, born on April 26, and recently released a handful of photos of ...

Wide-eyed, arboreal lorises—small mammals that secrete flesh-rotting venom to use in vicious territorial fights—are among the planet's strangest primates. And because they live in trees and are ...

A set of twin pygmy slow lorises, considered an endangered species, were born in June at the Little Rock Zoo, the zoo announced on Tuesday. A boy and girl were born to dad, Frasier and mom, Minh Yih ...