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But even then, the article is only looking at very old studies that examine Slow Lorises bites in humans for which there is very little data.

Whereas the entire thrust of this article is that Slow Lorises bites are primarily used as a weapon again other Slow Lorises, rather than a defence against predication.

If you’re to point out that Slow Lorises aren’t venomous, then you’ve quoted the wrong part of that article.

The lorises must swallow quite a bit of their own venom given the delivery mechanism.

I wonder if lorises switch to moving extremely fast when they know that a predator has spotted them.

Strepsirrhini (lorises, etc.) primates retained it while Haplorhini (humans and such) lost it.

> Slow lorises have needle-like teeth called dental combs or tooth combs on their lower jaw.

Other than lorises and platypuses (for the armchair pedant -- platypodes ), the only other clade of venomous mammals I know of are the solenodons of Cuba and Hispaniola.

Due to the high degree of similarity between the brachial gland exudate of slow lorises and the Fel d 1 allergen in domestic cats, the anaphylactic shock expressed by victims is probably just a reaction to the exudate's allergen.

From the NPR link [0]: > The researchers analyzed the brain sizes and diets of over 140 primate species spanning apes, monkeys, lemurs and lorises and found that those who munched on fruit instead of leaves had 25 percent more brain tissue, even when controlling for body size and species relatedness.

From: "Are slow lorises really venomous?" [1] In primates, slow lorises (genus Nycticebus) are though to be venomous in Thai folklore (Wilde, 1972) but are they really?

"Slow lorises hate this one simple trick!"