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brown marks encircle the eyes and appear on the top of the 
head. The fur is very dense and soft. The length of the head 
and body varies from 12 to 15 inches. 
Slow Lorises are nocturnal and arboreal, rarely descending 
to the ground. They feed on insects, fruit, and small birds 
Fig. 25. Slow Loris, Nycticebus coucang. 
(Flower). The young are carried under the mother's body, 
where they hold her fur by all four hands, until they almost equal 
her in size. 
The homeland of the Slow Loris is the Malay Peninsula, 
whence it extends northward to Bengal, Burma, extreme south- 
west Yunnan, Siam, and Cochin-China. The form found in 
Bengal is distinguished as N. c. bengalensis, that in upper 
Burma, Laos, Annam, and Yunnan as N. c. cinereus. 
