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Any of a group of small prosimian primates native to Southeast Asia. Lorises are slow-moving, tree-dwelling, and nocturnal. They have very large eyes; true lorises have no tails. They climb without leaping, gripping branches tightly and moving on or hanging below them. (Family Lorisidae.)

The slender loris (Loris tardigradus) of southern India and Sri Lanka is about 20 cm/8 in long. The tubbier slow loris (Nycticebus coucang) of Southeast Asia is 30 cm/1 ft.

The angwantibo (genus Arctocebus), potto (genus Perodicticus), and galagos or bushbabies (genera Galago and Euoticus) are similar African forms.

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