On November 15th 2015, my brother and I were driving back from Valparai in Tamil Nadu after a productive wildlife trip in the Anaimalais.

They return after sometime and take care of their cubs.

There are ten species of lorises, and a number of subspecies, spread across two genera – namely, the genus Loris, comprising the slender lorises, and the genus Nycticebus, comprising the slow lorises..

The Gray Slender Loris is commonly found in the tropical scrub and deciduous forests as well as the dense hedgerow plantations bordering farmlands of Southern India. Both slender loris species are unique among the members of the family Lorisidae in many respects.

We studied the feeding ecology of the Mysore slender loris (Loris lydekkerianus lydekkerianus) for 10.5 mo in a dry scrub forest at Ayyalur Interface Forestry Division, Tamil Nadu, South India. American Journal of Physical Anthropology . The natural diet of slender lorises is of particular interest for several reasons.

Gupta’s research in the forests of Tamil Nadu is the only radio-collared study of slender lorises.

TTD Divisional Forest Officer Phani Kumar said the slender loris generally leaves the cubs at safe places and go in search of food. We recorded and analyzed 1240 feeding incidents, which indicate that the lorises were almost exclusively faunivorous, with 96% of all feeding events representing animal prey.

Two of its sub-species are found in southern India, namely Loris lydekkerianus lydekkerianus in the dry forests of Eastern Ghat mountain ranges and Loris lydekkerianus malabaricus in the rainforests of the Western Ghat. The Slender Loris, commonly called Thevangu in Tamil, is a small, nocturnal and arboreal primate. the red slender loris, Loris tardigradus the gray slender loris, Loris lydekkerianus Some sources list only one species, Loris tardigradus and regard subspecies of lydekkerianus as subspecies instead of tardigradus. The Lorises Of Sri Lanka. The Ayyalur village near Dindigul in Tamil Nadu is the thriving place of the Slender Loris or ‘Kutti Thevangu’ in Malayalam, which are among the endangered primates. On slowing down near one of the hairpin bends, we spotted a Crested Hawk-eagle with a Slender Loris in its talons. Referred to as “unahapuluwa” in Sinhalese, and “kutti thevangu” in Tamil, both species of loris in the slender loris genus can be found in Sri Lanka. The Slender Loris (Loris lydekkerianus lydekkerianus) is one of the two nocturnal prosimians found in India. Weighing around 200g or less, these small creatures are hard to … Two baby slender lorises, an animal native to India but rarely spotted in the open, were sighted on the ghat roads of Tirumala in Andhra Pradesh … 28, 209.

Suppl. Loris lydekkerianus is now considered a separate slender loris species found in India and Sri Lanka, while Loris tardigradus is a slender loris species found exclusively in Sri Lanka.

It is a small, shy and cryptic primate. First, some reports have hinted The slender lorises are two species of loris native to India and Sri Lanka, the only members of the genus Loris: . Diet of the slender loris (Loris tardigradus lydekkerianus) in Dindigul District, Tamil Nadu, India.

We describe the diet of free-ranging slender lorises (Loris lydekkerianus) based on a 10.5-mo study at Ayyalur Interface Forestry Divi-sion in Tamil Nadu, India (Nekaris, 2000).