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Lesser Slow Loris

Educational resources on Lesser Slow Loris

Lesser Slow Loris or Nycticebus pygmaeus is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Vulnerable due to A1cd. IUCN Profile of the Lesser Slow Loris

Academic web links for the Lesser Slow Loris.


DLC: Animals: Slow Loris
Duke Lemur Center ... Slow loris closely investigating a large flower. Click image for larger version.
lemur.duke.edu/animals/slowloris

DLC: Animals: Pygmy Slow Loris
Duke Lemur Center ... A pygmy slow loris dangling in "sloth" position. Click image for larger version.
lemur.duke.edu/animals/pygmyslowloris

ADW: Nycticebus pygmaeus: Information
The Houston Zoo, "Lesser Slow Loris" (On-line). Accessed November 21, 1999 at http://www.houstonzoo.org/mammals/pages/lrslris.htm.
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Nycticebus_pygmaeus.html

Chicago Zoological Society, Brookfield Zoo
...lemur), 2 Leontopithecus rosalia (golden lion tamarin), 2 Mandrillus sphinx (mandrill), 2 Nomascus leucogenys (northern white-cheeked gibbon), 5 Nycticebus pygmaeus (lesser slow loris
pin.primate.wisc.edu/idp/idp/entry/448

Kunming Institute of Zoology
...macaque), 760 Macaca mulatta (rhesus macaque), 4 Nomascus leucogenys (northern white-cheeked gibbon), 10 Nycticebus coucang (slow loris), 12 Nycticebus pygmaeus (lesser slow loris), 11
pin.primate.wisc.edu/idp/idp/entry/262

Monkeyland Primate Sanctuary
Eulemur macaco (black lemur), 4 Galago moholi (South African lesser bushbaby), 3 Hylobates lar (lar gibbon), 37 Lemur catta (ring-tailed lemur), 1 Nycticebus pygmaeus (lesser slow loris
pin.primate.wisc.edu/idp/idp/entry/584

Primate Factsheets: Slow loris (Nycticebus) Taxonomy, Morphology ...
N. bancanus, N. borneanus, N. philippinus, Bornean slow loris; N. javanicus: N. ornatus, Javan slow loris; N. pygmaeus: N. intermedius, pygmy slow loris, lesser slow loris, pygmy
pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets/entry/slow_loris

Primate Info Net: Common Names for the Order Primates
English: Lesser Slow Loris Pygmy Slow Loris German: Kleiner Plumpori Otolemur crassicaudatus English: Thick-Tailed Bushbaby Greater Galago
pin.primate.wisc.edu/aboutp/taxonomy/common.html

Fitch-Snyder, Helena
Species of interest: Nocturnal prosimians, Macaca silenus (lion-tailed macaque), Nycticebus pygmaeus (lesser slow loris), Nycticebus (slow loris) Last updated: 2009-03-04
pin.primate.wisc.edu/idp/wdp/entry/1309

Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand, Wildlife Rescue Center
Nomascus leucogenys (northern white-cheeked gibbon), 2 Nomascus gabriellae (buff-cheeked gibbon), 4-10 Nycticebus coucang (slow loris), 2 Nycticebus pygmaeus (lesser slow loris), 4
pin.primate.wisc.edu/idp/idp/entry/492







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