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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The photos tell an unusual rescue story – the release of the critically endangered Javan slow lorises into Ujung Kulon ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pygmy. Slow. Nothing in those words sounds particularly threatening. However, did you know that pygmy slow lorises are the world’s only venomous primate? Special glands on the inside of their elbows ...

Adult male slow loris showing venomous saliva. Source: Andrew Walmsley, used with permission. The slow loris seems adorable. But its puppy-dog eyes and charming face mask belie its wild nature: These ...

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Last November, the Milwaukee County Zoo acquired two pygmy slow lorises from the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois. The pair live in the nocturnal area of the small mammals building. It's the first time this ...