Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the Milwaukee County Zoo's pygmy slow lorises looks out of the enclosure at the small mammals building. The animal is ...

A new, rare baby — so small, it could fit in the palm of your hand — is calling a Tennessee zoo home. The Memphis Zoo welcomed the baby pygmy slow loris in a Jan. 29 Facebook video, which showed the ...

The slow loris hardly looks dangerous with its huge, round eyes, soft fur, and tiny hands gripping tree branches; the animal almost resembles a plush toy someone forgot in the forest. That appearance ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — They sleep during the day and forage at night. They can’t jump, but they’re excellent climbers. They have huge round eyes. And — unique among primates — they have a venomous bite. Meet ...

The Memphis Zoo in Tennessee is celebrating a rare birth. The zoo recently announced the addition of a Pygmy Slow Loris, a super-rare, super-venomous primate. They even shared a video of the ...

For the first time, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) is celebrating the birth of two pygmy slow lorises, an endangered species. Small Mammal House keepers ...

While they may look like innocent, wide-eyed plush toys on social media, slow lorises hide a far more violent reality. New research from 2026 shows that for these endangered primates, returning to the ...