The newest addition to the Memphis Zoo's primate gang, a ping pong ball-sized pygmy slow loris, is being hand-raised behind the scenes, the zoo announced Monday. Born on Dec. 13, the rare and ...

DULUTH — "It's super dark in there, and I can see their little glowing eyes," zookeeper Bethany Wright said. On the morning of March 1, checking in on the Lake Superior Zoo's pair of pygmy slow ...

GALVESTON, Texas (CW39) – Moody Gardens has welcomed a rare and tiny new arrival — the birth of a pygmy slow loris, one of the world’s most endangered primates. The male was born August 18, 2025, at ...

The Lake Superior Zoo announced the birth of two more Pygmy Slow Lorises, bringing the family’s total up to six. Zookeeper Daniel Johnson says they came as surprise, as it’s difficult to spot them, ...

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.

GALVESTON, Texas — It’s a boy! Moody Gardens in Galveston is showing off a baby primate that weighed just over 8 ounces at birth. The rare pygmy slow loris was born in Moody Gardens' Rainforest ...

In early 2009, a man in St. Petersburg, Russia, uploaded a video onto YouTube in which his pet pygmy slow loris — a small, threatened Asian primate — gets tickled. The video quickly went viral, ...

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 ...