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Primates - Red Slender Loris
Topic Started: Nov 6 2013, 05:22 PM (1,136 Views)
Thierry Baudet
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Red Slender Loris ~ Loris tardigradus

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General Information

Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Strepsirrhini
Family: Lorisidae
Genus: Loris
Species: Loris tardigradus

Location

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Conservation Status

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Sizes
Weight85–370 g
Length (average)180–250 mm
Height (average)-


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Type of Exhibit: As Slender Lorises are nocturnal, it is advised to keep them in a nocturnal house so visitors will be able to see them during the day. Keeping them outside is a possibility in warmer climates as long as an indoor enclosure/nesting box is provided where they can stay during the day (however as they would rarely show themselves during the day, a nocturnal house works better).
The enclosure needs lots of branches and vegetation as these animals spend most of their time in the trees.

Temperament: They are rather slow, docile animals.

Diet: They are primarily insectivorous but also eat bird eggs, berries, leaves, buds and occasionally invertebrates as well as geckos and lizards. To maximize protein and nutrient uptake they consume every part of their prey, including the scales and bones.

Social Needs: It forms small social groups, containing adults of both sexes as well as young animals. This species is among the most social of the nocturnal primates. So it is advised to keep multiple individuals.

Extra Information:
  • This is #6 of the 10 focal species and #22 of the 100 EDGE mammal species worldwide considered the most evolutionarily distinct and globally endangered
  • The red slender loris differ from its close relative the gray slender loris in its frequent use of rapid arboreal locomotion.
  • Females are dominant.
  • This species mates while hanging upside down from branches; individuals in captivity will not breed if no suitable branch is available.
  • They make nests out of leaves or find hollows of trees or a similar secure place to live in.


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Edited by Thierry Baudet, Nov 6 2013, 05:29 PM.
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