Quick facts
Lifespan
15-20 years
Diet
Meat, insects, snail, small birds, eggs and vertebrates
Habitat
Live in tree branches in tropical forests.
Range
Their range stretches from Northeast India through Indochina, east to the Sulu Archipelago (the small, southern islands of the Philippines), and south to the island of Java (including Borneo, Sumatra, and many small nearby islands).
The slow loris is neither a monkey or an ape, but an earlier group of primates is called a prossimian. The history began about 65 million years ago, dating to the end of dinosaurs.