Other threats include habitat loss, electrocution on live wires, and road accidents. In addition, slender lorises are illegally smuggled to supply a growing exotic pet trade. This has contributed greatly to the decline of the slender loris. Script error: No such module "Category handler". Native people have always believed that all parts of the slender loris have some medicinal or magical powers Script error: No such module "Category handler". Threats Īccording to biologists, poaching activity has led to the steady decline of the species in Tamil Nadu. They make nests out of leaves or find hollows of trees or a similar secure place to live in. They are able to digest toxic prey such as ants and noxious beetles, urinating on their hands before entering ant colonies to mimic the chemical profile of their prey to avoid attack.
To maximize protein and nutrient uptake they consume every part of their prey, including the scales and bones. The slender lorises are one of the most faunivorous primates the red slender loris has only been observed eating animal prey while the gray slender loris is primarily carnivorous (mostly insects) but will also eat bird eggs, berries, leaves, buds and occasionally invertebrates as well as geckos and lizards. Newborn infants cling to the mother's front for a few weeks and after that will be "parked" in a tree while the mother goes off to feed. Gray slender lorises will often bear twins but the survival rate is low. Males will follow females while they are in oestrus and mating may occur after a bout of play fighting. The adults typically hunt separately during the night. The groups also undertake mutual grooming and play wrestling. They often form small social groups to sleep, containing adults of both sexes as well as the young. Behaviour įemale slender lorises generally have an exclusive home range while males may overlap with others. The gray slender loris can be found in tropical rainforests, primary and some secondary, coastal acacia scrub forests, semi-evergreen forests, swamps, and bamboo groves up to 2000 m above sea level. nycticeboides, prefers cloud, montane, and highland evergreen forests at elevations of 1800–2300 m.
tardigradus, favors wet lowland forests (up to 470 m above sea level) south western wet-zone of Sri Lanka while the mountain loris, L. The two subspecies of red slender loris differ in their habitat preference, the lowland loris, L. The red slender loris is found in Sri Lanka while the gray slender loris is found in Sri Lanka and India. (meaning 'the slender-bodied one') and in Malayalam Script error: No such module "lang".). (in Tamil Script error: No such module "lang"., Script error: No such module "lang".) ( Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., or Script error: No such module "Lang". ( Script error: No such module "lang".) in Sinhala, in Tamil, spoken across southern India and Sri Lanka and in Malayalam, spoken mainly in the Indian state of Kerala, they are known as Script error: No such module "Lang". In Sri Lanka they are known as Script error: No such module "Lang". ( Script error: No such module "lang".) in Kannada, and Script error: No such module "Lang". in Telugu, Script error: No such module "Lang". ( Script error: No such module "lang".) or Script error: No such module "Lang". In India, slender lorises are known as they are known as Script error: No such module "Lang". The red slender loris, Loris tardigradus, is found in Sri Lanka. Gray slender loris, Loris lydekkerianus.Subfamily Perodicticinae: African lorisids.Saint-Hilaire's Loris at first included Daubenton's type species, Loris de Buffon, which he however delegated to the new Nycticebus genus in 1812. The genus Loris was separated from lemurs by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1796), based on a suggestion of a Lorican genus by Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (1792). According to Buffon, the name loeris had been in use for some time by Dutch naturalists for the "sloths of Ceylon". The name Loris is first reported Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1765, representing the Dutch loeris meaning "clown". The type species was named Lemur tardigradus by Linnaeus in 1758. The gray slender loris, Loris lydekkerianus, is found in India and Sri Lanka.
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