doesn't live in Africa's "tropical" semi-monkey-areas and Südostasiens the Schlanklori but populated the Indian subcontinent as one single representative of the subordination. it lives on Sri Lanka and South-India in the forests as far as to a height of 1800 m. Schlankloris live in exclusively the branch-region of the trees. they live as well as in the moist rain-forest and in the swamp-forest at big rivers or the coast also as in the dry-forest.
Shape Schlankloris remind of owls spontaneously. In rounding, the in front narrowly together-standing orange-brown eyes are face gloomily bordered. Only the Koboldmaki has even bigger eyes within the primates.
Between the eyes, one of the nose is moving up to the forehead, white blaze. Also cheeks and chin are more brightly than the remaining body colored. It seems through the high neck as the head always has moved in. The ears are bigger and thin than with the close to relatives Plumplori. The Schlankloris are 26 cm of length the smallest Loris with maximum. The body is as the name lets suspected, very thin, the legs are long. The hands are smaller than the feet, front and hind legs nearly equally-long.
This shortened index finger something is less reduced as with the other Loris. Nevertheless, thumbs and big toe are far opposite-adjustable for the remaining fingers. Hands and feet are specialized gripping-organs. The fingers carry flat nails; only the 2. Toe is equipped with the finery-claw typical for semi-monkeys.
The Schlanklori has a short, soft and fleecy fur, that is colored in different gray and brown-sounds. The underside is light, silver-gray until white.
Males and females differ something for itself in size and color. There is a row differently big and colored subtypes.
Way of life Schlankloris are presumably individually alive. they lead a nightly existence so that observations are difficult in free nature. The Schlanklori oversleeps the day, with the feet at a trunk clinched, in the branches of the trees. Head and poor are hidden on that occasion between the legs so that it acts as a fleecy ball. On the day, the Schlanklori is to be hardly persuaded to particular activities. its movements are day slow, and it always seems "distressed" something. Uncommon sounds or movements can scare it mightily. Only in the evening, the small robber begins to revive.
it climbs quadruped, similarly deliberately like also the other Loris. its movements are hasty or abrupt by no means; it doesn't jump either, how approximately the lively Lemuren. The locomotion nevertheless is rapid. A leg is placed before the other continuously so that the small goblin vanished from the view in a flash. With its hikes from the branches, the Schlanklori prefers small branches, that it can umgreifen with hands and feet. Hip and ankles are very movable so that one can marvel at the oddest gymnastics with it. it sometimes is attached only to the legs of kopfunter and captures its meal with the hands.
The Schlanklori is a Schleichräuber. it creeps up its loot, insects, Geckos, young birds and tree-frogs, carefully at, in order to then grab in a flash with both hands, if it draws near sufficiently along is. The loot immediately is killed with one bite into the head. The Schlanklori likes to however also plunder bird-nests. In captivity, it eats also fruits and drinks milk.
Schlankloris place urine-brands. they serve the own bearings as well as as territorial-brands to the labeling of the own Revieres opposite Artgenossen. they either splash urine directly at trunks and branches or clean hands and feet with the own urine and mark the precinct with it. Strongly smelling secretions of the arm-glands are used as defense-secretions. Schlankloris go in for an intensive fur-care like all primates. In captivity, it was observed that they also look after the fur mutually for itself.
Reproduction It becomes two times in the year, after a Tragzeit of 160-174 days, in April until May and November until December, usually 1 (more rarely 2) young born. The baby clings at the mother's fur, or it becomes at night if they go at hunt, on a branch cast off and picked up again in the morning. Both oversleep the day together. Schlankloris arose with 11/2 years.
Continuance Nothing known is over the frequency of the Schlankloris, however she are regarded as endangered and are protected by the Washingtoner Artenschutzübereinkommen accordingly.
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