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 ...

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 ...

Naga, a 3-year-old pygmy slow loris, had two newborn babies holding on to her. They’re the first of their endangered species born at the zoo, according to an announcement .

Photograph courtesy of the Smithsonian National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute. Slow lorises are the only venomous primates, with venom produced in the glands of their upper arm. Though they do ...

The duo were pygmy slow lorises, a tree-dwelling primate species from Southeast Asia. Two pygmy slow loris babies were born Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute on March 21.

Professor Nekaris of Anglia Ruskin University, in England, established the Little Fireface Project to help the conservation of lorises and has published more than 300 scientific papers.

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 ...

The duo were pygmy slow lorises, a tree-dwelling primate species from Southeast Asia. Two pygmy slow loris babies were born Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute on March 21.

The duo were pygmy slow lorises, a tree-dwelling primate species from Southeast Asia. Two pygmy slow loris babies were born Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute on March 21.