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- noun Plural form of
loris .
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Examples
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While their close relatives - such as lorises and galagos - range across Africa and Asia, lemurs only exist on the island of Madagascar, a place where environmental destruction has put nearly all living lemur species at risk of extinction.
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Unfortunately for lorises, their cuteness can actually be a bad thing, according to The Telegraph.
Slender Loris Gets A Checkup (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Getty snapped some shots of two female lorises getting their first health exam at the London Zoo.
Slender Loris Gets A Checkup (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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A fossil that was celebrated last year as a possible “missing link” between humans and early primates is actually a forebearer of modern-day lemurs and lorises, according to two papers by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin, Duke University and the University of Chicago.
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A fossil that was celebrated last year as a possible “missing link” between humans and early primates is actually a forebearer of modern-day lemurs and lorises, according to two papers by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin, Duke University and the University of Chicago.
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A fossil that was celebrated last year as a possible “missing link” between humans and early primates is actually a forebearer of modern-day lemurs and lorises, according to two papers by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin, Duke University and the University of Chicago.
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They also note that the article on Darwinius published last year in the journal PLoS ONE ignores two decades of published research showing that similar fossils are actually strepsirrhines, the primate group that includes lemurs and lorises.
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They also note that the article on Darwinius published last year in the journal PLoS ONE ignores two decades of published research showing that similar fossils are actually strepsirrhines, the primate group that includes lemurs and lorises.
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Logging, agriculture and development made it hard for the lorises to find food, escape threats or meet mates.
Horton Plains Slender Loris Photographed For First Time (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Gamage said more of the lorises are thought to live in small patches of forest in Sri Lanka's hill country.
Horton Plains Slender Loris Photographed For First Time (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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