Slow lorises are small primates native in Southeast Asia. Apple Daily went deep undercover and posed as potential buyers to meet with one seller in a Tsuen Wan park late at night. The seller was highly suspicious, requiring a HKD deposit just to see the animals, and made sure the coast was clear before revealing a two-month old slow loris.
The seller claimed the animals were bred from a pair that was smuggled from Thailand, and that they were therefore safe, domesticated, and not traumatically torn from the wild where they belong like their parents.
Another online buyer that Apple Daily contacted was selling the primates for HKD11, and urged them to act quick before they were all snapped up, implying that they were popular. Slow lorises have gone from relative obscurity to internet fame in recent years thanks to their massive, weird-in-a-cute-way eyes and gentle disposition.
For example this video, of a slow loris eating a rice ball, has almost 9 million views on YouTube. Sounds cute, right? Yeah, except they have a toxic bite, with the toxin also being found it in its fur. Photo: Jon via Flickr. Subscribe to our mailing list for a chance to win a Coconuts hat! You must be logged in as a Coconuts User to comment. In a study, researchers from Oxford Brookes University examined a hundred online videos of pet lorises and concluded that all the animals were distressed, sick, or exposed to unnatural conditions.
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