Slow Loris is the common name for a group of several species of nocturnal strepsirrhine primates making up the genus Nycticebus. Found in Southeast Asia and nearby areas, they range from Bangladesh and Northeast India in the west to the Sulu Archipelago in the Philippines in the east, and from Yunnan province in China in the north to the island of Java in the south.
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Asia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Bangladesh, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: China, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: India, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Philippines, found in there.
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1. Wikipedia: Slow loris
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They are omnivores, eating small animals, fruit, tree gum, and other vegetation.
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Their habitat is rapidly disappearing and becoming fragmented, making it nearly impossible for slow lorises to disperse between forest fragments; unsustainable demand from the exotic pet trade and fro
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