Sentence examples for slender loris from inspiring English sources
noun
Any of the genus Loris of lorises native to India and Sri Lanka.
At present, there are only three thermoregulatory studies on the closest mainland relatives of lemuriforms, which could not confirm the use of heterothermy: Müller et al. (1985) found that slender loris, Loris tardigradus (Southeast Asian Lorisidae) cool large parts of the body during cold exposure but still keep the body core at a high temperature under laboratory conditions [17].
Granted, a slender loris is hardly big game.
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They've found what they're looking for – a small and extremely elusive furry creature – a slender loris.
She's like a slender loris in a Zara skirt suit; vulnerable and strange.
With its reduced, triangular form, it more closely resembles lorises (family Lorisidae), but the absence of a hypocone also distinguishes it from the slender lorises (Loris), the angwantibos (Arctocebus), and the pygmy slow loris (Nycticebus pygmaeus).
Slow lorises (genus Nycticebus) are strepsirrhine primates and are related to other living lorisoids, such as slender lorises (Loris), pottos (Perodicticus), false pottos (Pseudopotto), angwantibos (Arctocebus), and galagos (family Galagidae), and to the lemurs of Madagascar.
Compared to the slender lorises, the snout of the slow loris is even less pointed.
Photograph by Loris Savino.
