For the Bronx Zoo, Christmas came early in 2025. On December 13, the Zoo celebrated the birth of the first primate born in the Zoo’s new immersive World of Darkness exhibit. Its first new primate ...

A new study tracked nine rescued slow lorises in Bangladesh and found that seven of them died within months of release.

Meet Memphis Zoo's venomous but adorable new addition: a ping pong ball-sized pygmy slow loris. The tiny primate, who has not yet been named, was born on Dec. 13 to Samper and Artemis at the Memphis ...

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 ...

The slow loris hardly looks dangerous with its huge, round eyes, soft fur, and tiny hands gripping tree branches; the animal ...

Returning rescued slow lorises to the wild may sound like a conservation success, but a new study shows it can turn deadly. Researchers tracked nine released animals and found that only two survived, ...

Releasing rescued slow lorises back into the wild may sound heroic, but most don’t survive. In one study, seven out of nine were killed—largely by other lorises defending their territory.

Wildlife releases are usually joyous events. Uplifting scenes of animals cautiously nosing the air as they take their first ...

The birth was the first primate for the Zoo’s newly reopened World of Darkness exhibit. Adult pygmy slow lorises weigh about one pound, and are found exclusively in the bamboo and forests of Southeast ...