The Slice from PBS North.

They are not a monkey.

So they're kind of like lemurs where they are primate, but not a monkey.

Hi.

My name is Anna.

I am a zookeeper here at the Lake Superior Zoo.

And we're going to go feed our lorises.

Here at the zoo, we have pygmy slow lorises, They can be found all over Southeast Asia.

Our two lorises that we have at the zoo are Colby and Giorgio.

So they are a breeding pair of lorises.

And so we are breeding them to help further the species, in zoos and in captivity.

And about five months ago, they gave birth to a set of twins.

So we have two, I guess they're not babies anymore, but they still.

I still call them babies.

Named Bao and Banh Mi.

They've been doing really, really great.

So they're completely weaned off of Colby their mom.

And so they're exclusively eating, like, their vegetables, their bugs, everything that their parents are eating, and they're starting to look like just many adult lorises.

Another interesting thing about them, too, is that they're, one of the only venomous mammals, so they're the only venomous primate.

The only time anyone's been like, seriously injured from the venom is someone if someone is allergic to their venom.

You can still tell which ones the little ones are.

They are smaller than their parents, but they have kind of their adult coloration, in them.

But they are also very curious and very playful.

So you'll see them kind of exploring their exhibit and interacting with new enrichment and stuff like that a lot, which is really fun to see.

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