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loris
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loris
primitive primate, nocturnal and arboreal, insectivorous and without a tail; very slow moving and related to lemurs. Includes slender loris (Loris tardigradus), slow loris (Nycticebus coucang).


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Other fossils unearthed from the same rocks include remains of fish, birds, bats, and small primates called lorises.
However, the new fossil also contains similarities to the ankles of lemurs and lorises and could just as easily have belonged to adapiforms, contends Gregg F.
These new finds double the age of the sparse fossil record for lorises and bushbabies, which with lemurs make up a primate group called the strepsirrhines.
 
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