A primitive primate, native to forests in S and SE Asia; no tail; pale face with dark rings around large eyes; slow climbers; three species: slender loris (Loris tardigradus) with long thin legs; slow loris or cu lan (Nycticebus coucang), and lesser slow loris (Nycticebus pygmaeus). (Family: Lorisidae.)
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Loris is the common name for the strepsirrhine primates of the subfamily Lorinae in family Lorisidae.
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