The slow loris’s face markings draw attention to its most dangerous part—the mouth
With a pair of teddy bear eyes, a button nose, and face that looks like a cross between a red panda and a sloth, the Javan slow loris may well be one of the cutest critters on the planet. But what we see as adorable, other animals may interpret as a dire warning.
The young ones, they really try to kill you. They are incredibly strong. And they pool saliva in their mouth, which has the venom in it. The findings should hammer home for us what the rest of the animal kingdom appears to already know.Interestingly, Nekaris and her coauthors were also able to prove another hunch—that younger lorises were more aggressive than their elders.
Sometimes, the animals put up such a fight, the scientists can’t even complete their measurements— impressive for an animal that weighs as much as a large hamster. With so much riding on winning that territory at a young age and keeping it on into adulthood, Nekaris says it seems evolution may be favoring investing a lot of energy into these face signals that advertise venom and toughness., an evolutionary behavioral ecologist at California State University, Long Beach, has made a career of studying aposematic signals in everything from skunks to giant pandas. But usually the signals he sees are strictly used as anti-predator devices.
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