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Exploring cultural drivers for wildlife trade via an ethnoprimatological approach: a case study of slender and slow lorises (Loris and Nycticebus) in South and Southeast Asia

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It is shown here that, in the case of wildlife trade, culturally specific patterns are evident among different ethnic groups, even within a country, and revealing such patterns is the foundation for developing conservation management plans for each species.
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Obligate exudativory characterizes the diet of the pygmy slow loris Nycticebus pygmaeus

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Pygmy slow lorises are morphologically specialized for processing and digesting exudates, displaying small body sizes, specialized dentitions, elongated, and narrow tongues, large caecums, short duodenums, expanded volar pads, and modified hindlimbs, which points to this species being an obligate exudativore.
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Conservation and ecology of the neglected slow loris: priorities and prospects

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It is shown that local knowledge can provide vital data regarding slow loris distribution and in helping with conservation programmes for these taxa, and novel data on the feeding ecology of slow lorises is presented, reifying that these primates are obligate exudativores.
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Ranging Patterns of the Pygmy Slow Loris (Nycticebus pygmaeus) in a Mixed Deciduous Forest in Eastern Cambodia

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Traditional use of slow lorises Nycticebus bengalensis and N. pygmaeus in Cambodia: an impediment to their conservation.

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Market values of both species more than doubled from 1997 to 2007; however, the major- ity of respondents expressed reluctance to substitute loris medicines with alternatives, indicating that promotion of alternatives would be an inappropriate conservation tool.
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Field surveys of the Vulnerable pygmy slow loris Nycticebus pygmaeus using local knowledge in Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia

Abstract The pygmy slow loris Nycticebus pygmaeus is a little-studied primate endemic to Vietnam, Laos, southern China and eastern Cambodia. Our study aimed to gain local knowledge on the…
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Conservation genetics and species status of an endangered Australian dragon, Tympanocryptis pinguicolla (Reptilia: Agamidae)

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A phylogenetic and morphological study of the grassland earless dragon, Tympanocryptis pinguicolla, an endangered habitat specialist that occurs in a few isolated populations in eastern Australia suggests translocation may not be an appropriate management strategy and the findings that Darling Downs populations are not T.
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Hiding from the Moonlight: Luminosity and Temperature Affect Activity of Asian Nocturnal Primates in a Highly Seasonal Forest

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Although mean activity was significantly affected by moonlight, the interaction between moonlight and temperature was also significant: on bright nights, studied animals were increasingly more active with higher temperature; and on dark nights they were consistently active regardless of temperature.
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Comparative Ecology of Exudate Feeding by Lorises (Nycticebus, Loris) and Pottos (Perodicticus, Arctocebus)

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The importance of providing opportunity for gouging for captive lorises is discussed, as a way to mitigate the periodontal diseases, which plague Nycticebus in captivity, and captive management via dietary changes and enrichment is discussed.
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A comparison of three survey methods for detecting the elusive pygmy slow loris Nycticebus pygmaeus in Eastern Cambodia

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This study aimed to evaluate three methods for sampling the relative abundance of the pygmy loris Nycticebus pygmaeus, which is threatened by overexploitation and habitat destruction.
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