... campus in Chennai City [Gandhi et al., 2010] and in KMTR in Tirunelveli district [Johnson, 1984; Kar Gupta, 2007]. Our surveys in Tirunelveli indicate that slender lorises are restricted to KMTR and may be absent or present in low numbers outside the protected area. Slender loris presence has been...

... Subspecies Slender loris Chromosomes Abstract Three wild-caught Sri Lankan and two captive-bred slender lorises (Loris tardi­ gradus) in Adelaide Zoo, South Australia, were karyotyped from leucocyte cultures. The founder male and one of the founder females were of the grey subspecies L. tardi­ gradus...

...Peter M. Goonan Observations were made on the behaviour of a group of slender lorises (Loris tαrdigrαdus) maintained in the Adelaide Zoo. Descriptions of their individual behaviour, social interactions, reproductive biology and development of young are given. The slender loris displays a more...

.... Although no observations have been made of slender loris daytime feeding behaviour, grey slender lorises (L. l. lydekkerianus and L. l. nordicus) may also move up to 300 m when disturbed at their sleep sites by potential predators. This shows that even specialist nocturnal primates can be suf ciently...

... recorded. Adult females had a reproductive potential of 4 infants per year. The findings presented in this paper constitute the first information on the life history parameters of wild slender lorises. Slender loris Breeding seasonality Mating system Gestation Inter-birth interval Birth peak Loris...

... ` Lorisidae ` Lorisinae ` Strepsirhini ` Prosimians ` Paternal care ` Infant parking ` Slender loris Abstract Studies of the life history parameters of slender lorises in captivity have led to conflicting results regarding gestation length, birth seasonality, interspecies variation in litter size...

... odour in lorises. Proc Zool Soc Lond 1956;127:580. 19 Montagna W, Ellis RA: The skin of the slender loris (Loris tardigradus). Am J Phys Anthropol 1960;18:19 43. 20 Rasmussen DT: Life History and Behaviour of Slow and Slender Lorises: Implications for the Lorisine-Galagine Divergence; PhD Diss, Duke...