Several drawings in Stephanie Poindexter’s office depict the slow loris, a nocturnal primate she’s been researching for the past decade with never-ending fascination. Native to Southeast Asia and ...

This story appears in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. After videos of slow lorises being tickled and fed rice balls in captivity swept the Internet, the wide-eyed animals ...

They are nocturnal, and with their mobile joints and opposable thumbs slow lorises are able to move about the tree tops with ease, catching prey and scent-marking territory. Unfortunately ...