Rare primate, a slow loris, rescued from roadside in southwest China

Police rescued a rare slow loris in China’s southeastern province of Yunnan after the nocturnal primate was found alongside a road on April 3, 2019. The slow loris is a native species in that part of China as well as in south and southeast Asia, and classified as a “species threatened with extinction” under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. The large-eyed creatures are being threatened by logging of their rain forests as well as because of…