^ "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species".Archived from the original on 12 April 2012. ^ "Men arrested hiding loris in underwear at Delhi airport"."Family Lorisidae: Angwantibos, pottos and lorises". Conservation database for lorises and pottos. "Table 3: vernacular names: English, French, German, others (countries of origin)". ^ Catalogue méthodique de collection des Mammifères, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (1851), p.Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 1952, 44f. Primates: Comparative Anatomy and Taxonomy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). This wildlife sanctuary has an area of 11,806 ha (29,170 acres). It is located in Karur and Dindigul districts of Tamilnadu. Kadavur Slender Loris Sanctuary was declared as India's first Slender Loris Sanctuary. WWF-India is working to protect the habitats of the Slender Loris through its wider conservation work in the Western Ghats - Nilgiris Landscape. IUCN has listed them as Endangered, whereas they are listed under the Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act of India, 1972, according them the highest level of legal protection. ĭestruction of tropical rain forest habitat is also contributing to declines in population. Along the western region of Tamil Nadu, there is a vigorous clampdown on illegal poaching of slender lorises. Other threats include habitat loss, electrocution on live wires, and road accidents. In addition, slender lorises are illegally smuggled to supply a growing exotic pet trade. This has contributed greatly to the decline of the slender loris. Native people have always believed that all parts of the slender loris have some medicinal or magical powers. They are able to digest toxic prey such as ants and noxious beetles, urinating on their hands before entering ant colonies to mimic the chemical profile of their prey to avoid attack.Īccording to biologists, poaching activity has led to the steady decline of the species in Tamil Nadu. To maximize protein and nutrient uptake they consume every part of their prey, including the scales and bones. The slender lorises are one of the most faunivorous primates the red slender loris has only been observed eating animal prey while the gray slender loris is primarily carnivorous (mostly insects) but will also eat bird eggs, berries, leaves, buds and occasionally invertebrates as well as geckos and lizards. They make nests out of leaves or find hollows of trees or a similar secure place to live in. Newborn infants cling to the mother's front for a few weeks and after that will be kept on a tree while the mother goes off to feed. Gray slender lorises will often bear twins but the survival rate is low. Males will follow females while they are in oestrus and mating may occur after a bout of play fighting. The adults typically hunt separately during the night. The groups also undertake mutual grooming and play wrestling. They often form small social groups to sleep, containing adults of both sexes as well as the young. Behaviour įemale slender lorises generally have an exclusive home range while males may overlap with others. The gray slender loris can be found in tropical rainforests, primary and some secondary, coastal acacia scrub forests, semi-evergreen forests, swamps, and bamboo groves up to 2000 m above sea level. nycticeboides, prefers cloud, montane, and highland evergreen forests at elevations of 1800–2300 m. tardigradus, favors wet lowland forests (up to 470 m above sea level) in the south western wet-zone of Sri Lanka while the mountain loris, L. The two subspecies of red slender loris differ in their habitat preference, the lowland loris, L. The red slender loris is found in Sri Lanka while the gray slender loris is found in Sri Lanka and India. In Sri Lanka they are known as unahapuluwa ( උනහපුළුවා) in Sinhala, in Tamil, spoken across southern India and Sri Lanka and in Malayalam, spoken mainly in the Indian state of Kerala, they are known as kutti thevangu (in Tamil தேவாங்கு, வா(வாக்கு) விலங்கு(ங்கு)) ( kattu-papa, Kadapapa, or theivangu (meaning 'the slender-bodied one') and in Malayalam കുട്ടിതേവാങ്ക്). In India, slender lorises are known as devanga-pilli ( దేవాంగ పిల్లి) or arawe-papa in Telugu, kaadu-paapa ( ಕಾಡು ಪಾಪ) in Kannada, Kaada Naramani (ಕಾಡ ನರಮನಿ) in Tulu and wanur-manushiya in Marathi. The red slender loris, Loris tardigradus, is found in Sri Lanka.
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