New campaign says 'tickling is torture' for slow lorises

Mongabay
By Jeremy HanceJun 17, 2015, 10:46 am264 pts
Have you seen a video where a slow loris—a small, cute, big-eyed primate from Asian rainforests—gets tickled? Here's the real story of how that slow loris got there. It was stolen from the wild by poachers, who probably took it from its mother—after killing her. Then its teeth were torn out with pliers…

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