Diet and feeding behaviour of Pygmy Lorises p.85 Omnivory as a strategy to overcome times of food shortage Summary ... Nycticebus coucang and Nycticebus pygmaeus (GROVES, 1971, 2002, 2004). Wiens, F. & Zitzmann, A. Established in 1964, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has evolved to become the world’s most comprehensive information source on the global conservation status of animal, fungi and plant species. Wiens, F., Zitzmann, A. Nycticebus coucang has the slowest metabolism of all the other Nycticebus species.

Wild ingested diets of N. javanicus comprised insects, tree gum and minor amounts of bamboo leaves, fruits and nectar 36. 2003b. Birds, which have very quick metabolisms tend to eat the same type of diet. Folia Primatol 70(6):362-4. (Nycticebus coucang): Social Organization, Infant Care System, and Diet Dissertation presented to the Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Geosciences of Bayreuth University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Natural Sciences by Frank Wiens from Frankfurt a.M. February 2002 Bayreuth . All five Nycticebus species have recently been discovered to feed regularly on exudates that they obtain through active gouging (N. bengalensis, Swapna et al. The family Lorisidae is subdivided in two subfamilies, Perodictinae and Lorinae. Introduction Slow lorises (Lorisidae: Nycticebus) are nocturnal primates ranging throughout Southeast Asia. 2003a. Int J Primatol 24(5):1007-21. In fact, the slow loris ingests high-energy food. The Sunda slow loris (Nycticebus coucang) or greater slow loris is a strepsirrhine primate and a species of slow loris native to Indonesia, western Malaysia, southern Thailand and Singapore.It measures 27 to 38 cm (11 to 15 in) from head to tail and weighs between 599 and 685 g (21.1 and 24.2 oz). The Javan slow loris was previously recognized as a subspecies but has since been elevated to species status. Zhang, Y., Chen, Z. Studies have been done to determine the reason for their slow metabolism, but it has been found that it is not caused by a low energy diet. 2010; N. coucang, Wiens et al. In this thesis I describe the social organization, infant care system, and diet of the slow loris Nycticebus coucang, a nocturnal arboreal prosimian primate, in the Malaysian rainforest.

U. Streicher et al. Predation on a wild slow loris (Nycticebus coucang) by a reticulated python (Python reticulates). Social dependence of infant slow lorises to learn diet. These prosimians are found in different parts of Southeast Asia.