Image of the Day: Winter Habits
The pygmy slow loris (Nycticebus pygmaeus) of Southeast Asia is the first hibernating primate discovered outside Madagascar.
Dec 8, 2015
(See Ruf et al., “Hibernation in the pygmy slow loris (Nycticebus pygmaeus): multiday torpor in primates is not restricted to Madagascar,” Scientific Reports, 2015.)
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