Slow Loris — Sumatra Night Primate Portrait
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A Sunda slow loris in the canopy of a Sumatran secondary forest — the nocturnal primate’s large reflective eyes, white facial stripe, and the venomous arm glands at the elbows visible in red-spectrum field lighting.
Description
Slow loris photography is conducted under strict ethical guidelines — no white light photography, no handling or feeding, and the documentation always in service of conservation monitoring rather than commercial photography. This image was made by a permitted wildlife monitoring team in the Sumatran secondary forest, the loris located by its eye shine reflected from a red-spectrum torch. The team’s protocol uses only 660nm wavelength red light that is outside the loris’s visual sensitivity range, minimising behavioural disturbance. The image documents the animal in its natural foraging posture — gripping a horizontal branch with all four limbs, the head turned toward the camera in the alert posture of a detected threat. The facial features that distinguish the slow loris from other nocturnal primates are clearly visible: the very large eyes with their reflective tapetum, the dark eye rings, the white central facial stripe, and the short, rounded ears.
