However, the trio had been housed together for several years before this development. Slender lorises live in the forests of India and Sri Lanka. Loris and adaptations of aquatic mammals 1. There are two main types: grey and red slender lorises. It is the only animal of the loris family to have venom. Their limbs being formed only for climbing and clinging to branches, an adaptation to their living in trees. This Red Slender Loris walking shows his long slender equal-length limbs and the absence of a tail. The scientists are yet to know the source of this venom. Adelaide Zoo reported that two of their slender loris females formed a coalition against the male, forcing separation due to increased aggressive behavior between them and the male (Goonan, 1993). Slender Lorises. The slow loris as you might imagine from the name is not that swift. Slow lorises live in Southeast Asia. The gray slender loris has a polygynandrous mating system, meaning that both males and females have multiple breeding partners within a breeding season. Red slender lorises are only found in Sri Lanka. The thumb and great toe are, as a rule, opposable to the other digits and enable them to grasp branches and twigs more easily. Slow lorises (genus Nycticebus) are strepsirrhine primates and are related to other living lorisoids, such as slender lorises (Loris), pottos (Perodicticus), false pottos (Pseudopotto), angwantibos (Arctocebus), and galagos (family Galagidae), and to the lemurs of Madagascar. It is a small (8 inches long) tail-less, slow moving, nocturnal primate with a short, dense, soft fur, large eyes and thin rounded ears. Local peoples have long been after them for alleged spiritual and medicinal uses. It is the slender loris found in the scrub jungles of india. They have a body length between 11.6 and 17 cms (4.6 - 6.7 inches), they do not have a tail and they weigh between 103 and 172 g (2.6 - 6.1 oz). Slender loris are nocturnal animals and their large ears and eyes are adaptations to this. Researchers disagree on when or if there is a specific breeding season, but there is a general consensus that females have a gestation period of about 5.5 months. Its color is earthy brown and it has a slender … Slow Lorises. There are five species of slow Loris: the Bengal, Bornean, Javan, pygmy and Sunda slow Loris. What makes it deadlier is the fact that there is no antidote for this venom till now. 12. It is of 7 to 16 inches or 18 to 40 centimeters long. The Red Slender Loris is one of two slender loris species, the other one being the grey slender loris. They have soft, dense fur and it is reddish/brown in colour with a silver/grey coloured underside.