The slow, toxic and sleepy life of lorises is coded in their genes

Mongabay
Oct 11, 2022, 11:09 am214 pts
Wide-eyed, slow-moving and roughly the bulk of a small loaf of bread, pygmy lorises seem fairly unassuming at first glance. They spend their slow, nocturnal lives meticulously picking through the forests of Southeast Asia, feeding on a diet of gums and saps, invertebrates and fruit. Yet beneath this benign…

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