Remember captive can be under or over weight! Apply criteria to adult :

Weight > 850 g Weighs 600 —850 g NO Nycticebus bancanus: Medium Weighs < 500 g NO size, crimson red, eye patch ends YES YES YES at cheek bone. Only known from museum specimens Neck is a frosted with grey Nose is fully black Neck is a creamy/ white White muzzle and colour with stripe small black rings NO around eye YES YES YES YES Neck is reddish/ dark brown no frost

Ears are red/ ginger encased by Ears are tufted YES Muzzle is Muzzle is long/ white/cream fur and encased by Ears are black short coat fluffy dark fur and naked Ears are barely visible and YES YES YES concealed in fur YES Round or diffused YES edge upper eye patch; lower eye patch ends below YES eye or above cheek bone YES

White/cream Crown red/brown Crown orange and Crown yellow/ light diamond shape and diffuse to ears Crown red/brown and diffuse to ears with brown; all head Eye forks light or between the eyes/ with eye patches band or pointed to eye patches markings very faint Fluffy coat tending to Smooth coat not present. Dark eye patch extending meeting crown ears: its eye patch meeting crown with a and similar to rest of russet brown tending to reddish fur rim around eye down the cheek with a point extends to jaw barely visible point fur

Bengal Slow Javan Greater Slow Loris Kayan Slow Loris Bornean Slow Loris* Hill’s Slow Loris Pygmy Slow Loris Philippine Slow Loris Nycticebus bengalensis Nycticebus javanicus Nycticebus coucang Nycticebus kayan Nycticebus borneanus Nycticebus hilleri Nycticebus pygmaeus Nycticebus menagensis

*no adult picture available Is the loris an YES infant or juvenile? Terminology for identification The Little Fireface Project Young lorises look similar across species and are difficult to identify, particularly based on weight. Try Head forks and eye patch shapes to use the fur characteristics to ID young animals Saving the slow loris via ecology, education and empowerment At birth 16-60 g

Open eyes, pale coloured with very few marks. Fluffy and soft body hair, head seems Dorsal Stripes large compared with body

At 3 months 250-400 g

Colour chart Fluffy soft hair on the Reddish hind limbs. Eye patches are less defined, do not take on adult characteristics. Much lighter or very black

Brown

Body is frosted with white hairs

At 6 months Cream 330 g-650 g

The Little Fireface Project Fluffy hair becomes coarser, fur colours are Oxford Brookes University richer. Facial markings Slow Loris Species Nocturnal Research Group are more defined White Oxford, OX 3 0BP United Kingdom Identification Guide

[email protected] www.nocturama.org Facebook Little Fireface Project *Fluffy soft body @queenfireface, @littlefireface Grey Donate to the slow loris fund: hair usually lost http://www.brookes.ac.uk/about/news/slowloris/donate at 10 months.

Citation of this guide: Nekaris KAI, Musing L, Parish T (2015). Slow loris species identification guide. Canopy Vol 15, Issue Remember individuals in the trade may 3, pp 1-5. have been coloured, look at facial features www.nocturama.org