| Pygmy slow loris[1] | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Family: | Lorisidae |
| Genus: | Nycticebus |
| Species: | N. pygmaeus |
| Binomial name | |
| Nycticebus pygmaeus Bonhote, 1907 |
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| Pygmy Slow Loris range | |
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The pygmy slow loris (Nycticebus pygmaeus) is a rare species of loris found in the tropical dry forests of Vietnam, Laos, southern China, and east of the Mekong River in Cambodia. This primate is a nocturnal animal and will eat fruit, insects, small mammals and reptiles, flowers, tree gums, fungi, slugs and snails.[4]
It is arboreal, crawling on branches, unnoticed as it quietly moves through the thick leaves of the subtropics.[4]
Adults can grow to around 18–21cm long.[4]
It mates once every 12–18 months and will have 1–2 offspring after an average gestation period of 190 days. For the first few days, the young loris clings to belly of its mother. After 9 months the baby will be weaned.[4]
This loris was nearly wiped out during extensive burning, clearing and defoliating of forests in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.[4]
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