venomous implies injection. they are poisonous because they secret a poisonous substance. venom = bite or sting poisonous = rubbed on to skin or digested. so don't eat them. think poison dart frog.or puffer fish
once again they use it defensively they have to lick what is essentially their poisonous armpits after squeezing it then they bite. it would be the equivalent of a poison dart frog that grew teeth and licked itself then bit. they rub their faces in their poison sack as well they lick their face. it's actually the combo of their spit and the poison that makes it deadly. it almost exactly like a poison dart frog tactic.
you're wrong though because poison affects skin, if you were to touch their poison sacs nothing would happen, it's only when they suck on the poison sac and then bite that their VENOM has any effect.
It's a tarsier and only found now in the islands of southeast Asia. It's highly vulnerable to extinction and in captivity is found to almost never form breeding groups, no matter how hard conservationists try. They will definitely go extinct if their habitats are not protected, according to biologists.
They are protected by the Malaysian government and by conservation laws.
So no, you cannot have one, but you can go to the Philippine island of Bohol and see them in a sanctuary that tries to raise orphaned ones in their natural habitat.
Slow Loris' are not only endangered, but also illegally captured and shipped(very uncomfortably) to pet stores worldwide. The groups that collect them for selling are more similar to poachers, but they profit from the animal staying alive.
I've looked into it myself and it's STRONGLY discouraged to buy one because it promotes the awful methods used to store and ship them. Also I'm pretty sure you need an exotic pet handling license or some **** but it varies depending on where you live.
Due to their sharp and poisonous teeth, pet slow lorises have their teeth pulled out or cut, often resulting in infection, blood loss and poor nutrition every party needs a pooper, party pooper party pooper
It's an allergen, as in comment #35, the same one that causes allergic reactions to cats. I never said it was fatal (or venomous), which makes sense because it's probably used to kill prey or discourage smaller predators. Most animal bites, stings, etc aren't fatal or dangerous to humans because we're so big in comparison to most animals on the planet. If you've got a cat allergy a loris bite might be more serious, but don't quote me I ain't Attenborough.
Not sure, you could say venomous though lorises rub the poison on their teeth from secretions from the brachial gland under the arm. So technically speaking they secrete a poisonous allergen but they "inject" it via a bite, like a venomous animal would.
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