Downtown Abbey actor Peter Egan and The International Animal Rescue teamed up in a new PSA video warning us about the mistreatment of YouTube’s favorite tickling animal — the slow loris. Peter Egan in ...

In early 2009, a man in St. Petersburg, Russia, uploaded a video onto YouTube in which his pet pygmy slow loris — a small, threatened Asian primate — gets tickled. The video quickly went viral, ...

On the internet, cute is not hard to come by. From your standard grumpy cats and ermagerd pergs to the exotic world of photo-bombing seals and baby sloths, there is always a new cellphone background ...

The slow loris before he was caught. It was named ‘Krik’ which is one of the words used to describe the noises they make, kind of a clicking chirping noise. Photo courtesy of the Danau Girang Field ...

Have you seen a video where a slow loris—a small, cute, big-eyed primate from Asian rainforests—gets tickled? Here’s the real story of how that slow loris got there. It was stolen from the wild by ...

Warning: this article contains images of animal abuse which some may find distressing. A small furry creature huddles close to a tree branch on the edge of the forest. Its large, globular eyes are ...

The baby loris was born at the Ohio on February 24 to parents Gouda and Muenster. Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared ...

This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we’ve written about animals without telling you whether they suck or rule. We are now ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. What’s slow, fuzzy, and deadly like a cobra? The slow loris, of ...

Pygmy. Slow. Nothing in those words sounds particularly threatening. However, did you know that pygmy slow lorises are the world’s only venomous primate? Special glands on the inside of their elbows ...