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- strepsirrhine primates. The lorisids are all slim arboreal animals and comprise the lorises, pottos and angwantibos. Lorisids live in tropical, central...
- found throughout Africa and Asia. Members include the galagos and the lorisids.: 34–35  As strepsirrhines, lorisoids are related to the lemurs of Madagascar...
- further divided into the strepsirrhines, which include lemurs, galagos, and lorisids; and the haplorhines, which include tarsiers; and the simians, which include...
- Strepsirrhini. It includes the lemurs of Madagascar, as well as the galagos and lorisids of Africa and Asia, although a po****r alternative taxonomy places the...
- layers of the forests. They spend the day hidden in the leaves. Like all lorisids they are characterized by slow movements. The diet of angwantibos consists...
- superfamilies, Lemuroidea for all lemurs and Lorisoidea for the lorisoids (lorisids and galagos). Alternatively, the lorisoids are sometimes placed in their...
- (colugos) Order Primates (primates: monkeys, apes (including humans), lemurs, lorisids, galagos, and tarsiers) Superorder Laurasiatheria Order Eulipotyphla (hedgehogs...
- southern India and Sri Lanka. Their next closest relatives are the African lorisids, the pottos, false pottos, and angwantibos. They are less closely related...
-   Extinct in the wild (EW): 2 species   Critically endangered (CR): 203 species   Endangered (EN): 505 species   Vulnerable (VU): 536 species   Near threatened...
- born at the San Diego Zoo; as of 2013, the species is the most common lorisid primate kept in North American zoos. About 175 pygmy lorises live in breeding...