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Slow lorises, it turns out, can behave like birds and reptiles at certain times.
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Bobo.id – Guys, have you ever seen an animal slow loris?
Slow lorises are the world’s slowest mammals, according to National Geographic.
In addition, slow lorises are also known as lazy animals. How did it happen?
Turns out, slow lorises can sleep up to 20 hours a day! And when they wake up, they can spend time doing nothing, lo.
Imagine if the lorises had schools, most of them would be late every day.
Although mammals, these animals can actually behave like other animals, for example birds and reptiles.
Come on, find out the reasons and other interesting facts about slow lorises!
Not Like Mammals
Not many know that slow lorises can’t move their eyes to the right or to the left.
If slow lorises have to look around, they have to move their heads so their eyes can see clearly.
These behaviors and habits are the same as owls, friends.
Not only that, as mammals, slow lorises also do not behave like mammals in general.
While other mammals are known as warm-blooded animals that can regulate their body temperature to the environment, slow lorises are different.
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Slow lorises can’t sweat when it’s hot and cold when it’s cold.
This is because the slow loris’s metabolism is slow. In one meal, the leaves eaten by the slow loris can be digested for one month.
Scientists found that this slow metabolism could explain the reason why slow lorises walk so slowly.
Therefore, when the temperature is extreme, slow lorises prefer to move less often.
Warm Up
Founder of the Sloth (Loris) Conservation Foundation in Costa Rica, Rebecca Cliffe conducted research on several slow lorises with her friends.
Rebbeca put 8 three-toed slow lorises into each room to study how they use energy.
In this study, Rebecca wanted to examine how slow lorises adapt to the temperature of their environment.
If they don’t behave like warm-blooded mammals, they may behave like reptiles.
However, the results showed that slow lorises eat more when the air temperature increases.
Slow lorises also tend to climb higher places to get direct sunlight.
With this ability, the researchers discovered that even though slow lorises behave unlike mammals, they still need to warm their bodies.
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