Really, the first 30 seconds of this would do, but just look how precious its slow and deliberate moves are.
An oft-forgotten primate, the little loris is nevertheless a charming sunnuvagun. They're arboreal and nocturnal, which means they are a prosimian after my own heart. In their waking hours they like to play, wrestle, groom and hunt by the light of the moon. Lorises are primarily insectivores, but when they do eat other creatures they eat them whole, bones and all (extra protein!). They also mate but twice a year, hanging upside down from a branch; if no suitable branch can be found, no love shall be made.
The slender loris is unique to the tropical rainforests of Southern India and Sri Lanka, and is believed to have magical and medinical powers. As described by Sir J. Emerson Tennent: "the singularly large and intense eyes of the loris have attracted the attention of the Singhalese, who capture the creature for the purpose of extracting them as charms and love-potions, and this they are said to effect by holding the little animal to the fire till the eyeballs burst."The Tamil name for the red slender loris is Thavangu, or 'thin bodied'; charmingly, this is also the name given to deformed children and their emaciated ilk.
(All thanks be to Wikipedia & the Internets)
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