The Sumatran slow loris (Nycticebus hilleri) is a strepsirrhine primate and a species of slow loris that is native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra. For a time it was treated as a junior synonym of the Sunda slow loris (Nycticebus coucang), but it is now recognized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as a full species. Its specific name honors Hiram M. Hiller Jr., who collected the holotype of the species while exploring the East Indies in 1901.
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The Sumatran slow loris (Nycticebus hilleri) is a strepsirrhine primate and a species of slow loris that is native to Sumatra.
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Conservation
Since 2007, all slow loris species have been protected from commercial international trade under Appendix I of CITES.
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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 from traditional medicine has been the greatest cause for their decline.
Distribution and habitat
Slow lorises range across tropical and subtropical regions and are found in primary and secondary rainforests, as well as bamboo groves and mangrove forests.
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All slow lorises are threatened by the wildlife trade and habitat loss.
Wildlife trade
slow lorises have been overexploited and are in decline
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Sumatran slow loris (Wikipedia)
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The Sumatran slow loris (Nycticebus hilleri) is a strepsirrhine primate and a species of slow loris that is native to Sumatra.
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The Sumatran slow loris (Nycticebus hilleri) is a strepsirrhine primate and a species of slow loris that is native to Sumatra.
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The Sumatran slow loris (Nycticebus hilleri) is a strepsirrhine primate and a species of slow loris that is native to Sumatra.
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