A new study tracked nine rescued slow lorises in Bangladesh and found that seven of them died within months of release.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the Milwaukee County Zoo's pygmy slow lorises looks out of the enclosure at the small mammals building. The animal is ...

The Memphis Zoo in Tennessee is celebrating a rare birth. The zoo recently announced the addition of a Pygmy Slow Loris, a super-rare, super-venomous primate. They even shared a video of the ...

Returning rescued slow lorises to the wild may sound like a conservation success, but a new study shows it can turn deadly. Researchers tracked nine released animals and found that only two survived, ...

Releasing rescued slow lorises back into the wild may sound heroic, but most don’t survive. In one study, seven out of nine were killed—largely by other lorises defending their territory.

A never-ending fascination for the slow loris, a nocturnal primate native to Southeast Asia, drives Stephanie Poindexter’s research into conservation of the endangered species. Several drawings in ...

Wildlife releases are usually joyous events. Uplifting scenes of animals cautiously nosing the air as they take their first ...

Last November, the Milwaukee County Zoo acquired two pygmy slow lorises from the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois. The pair live in the nocturnal area of the small mammals building. It's the first time this ...

A new study has found that the wild can be a "death trap" for animals that are released from captivity after previously being rescued. The research, published in the journal Global Ecology and ...