Slow Lorises Bite With Flesh | 台北市立動物園資訊網
2020年10月19日—Withtheirbrightsaucereyes,buttonnosesandplump,fuzzybodies,slowlorises—agroupofsmall,nocturnalAsianprimates—resemble ...
With their bright saucer eyes, button noses and plump, fuzzy bodies, slow lorises — a group of small, nocturnal Asian primates — resemble adorable, living stuffed animals. But their innocuous looks belie a startling aggression: They pack vicious bites loaded with flesh-rotting venom. Even more surprising, new research reveals that the most frequent recipients of their toxic bites are other slow lorises.
“This very rare, weird behavior is happening in one of our closest primate relatives,” said Anna Nekaris, a primate conservationist at Oxford Brookes University and lead author of the findings, published Monday in Current Biology[1]. “If the killer bunnies on Monty Python were a real animal, they would be slow lorises — but they would be attacking each other.”
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