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"Man tried to fly in India with monkey in his pants"

Relevant to this recent post on endangered lorises.

C’mon, people. Don’t be stupid. Dried testicles of lorises, stewed tiger penis, and cobra blood drank straight up are not going to make you any more virile, strong, or healthy. If anything, it’ll make you LESS virile, because what the fuck, YOU JUST ATE A TIGER PENIS, who in their right mind would get with you or even talk to you?!

Leave our wild buddies in the wild, and go work out for a while, or eat a hearty salad, or ANYTHING that doesn’t involve the genitalia of wild animals. I promise it’ll do you way more good than dried testicles.

Look at this guy. He’s happy in the wild. He DOES NOT WANT TO BE IN YOUR PANTS.

Faces of Lorises 1. Nycticebus tardigradus malayanus (Nycticebus coucang spp.- Sunda slow loris. Note: possibly Nycticebus javanicus - the Javan slow loris)2. Nycticebus tardigradus hilleri (Nycticebus coucang coucang - the Sunda slow loris, type species)3. Loris gracilis typicus (Loris lydekkerianus lydekkerianus - Gray slender loris)4. Loris gracilis zeylanicus (Loris tardigradus - Red slender loris) All lorises are endangered or vulnerable due to the pet trade and their use in traditional “medicine”. While these small and nocturnal critters tend to be much more adaptable when humans encroach upon their habitat than other species of primate (making due in the trees humans transplant as opposed to their native foliage, and dealing with the human presence in stride, for example), they’re still all too often thought to “cure” various ailments with their body parts (especially the slow lorises), and traded as pets throughout their native habitat of Southeast Asia, and when they’re successfully smuggled to the rest of the world. Seriously, people. Their cuteness is so much cuter in the wild. Lorises are freaking adorable, and the hunting strategies of the various species and subspecies are so varied and fascinating that they deserve to stay in a protected natural habitat. I mean, among other reasons to preserve them, obviously…they’re just such cool little omnivores! Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1904.

Faces of Lorises

1. Nycticebus tardigradus malayanus (Nycticebus coucang spp.- Sunda slow loris. Note: possibly Nycticebus javanicus - the Javan slow loris)
2. Nycticebus tardigradus hilleri (Nycticebus coucang coucang - the Sunda slow loris, type species)
3. Loris gracilis typicus (Loris lydekkerianus lydekkerianus - Gray slender loris)
4. Loris gracilis zeylanicus (Loris tardigradus - Red slender loris)

All lorises are endangered or vulnerable due to the pet trade and their use in traditional “medicine”. While these small and nocturnal critters tend to be much more adaptable when humans encroach upon their habitat than other species of primate (making due in the trees humans transplant as opposed to their native foliage, and dealing with the human presence in stride, for example), they’re still all too often thought to “cure” various ailments with their body parts (especially the slow lorises), and traded as pets throughout their native habitat of Southeast Asia, and when they’re successfully smuggled to the rest of the world.

Seriously, people. Their cuteness is so much cuter in the wild. Lorises are freaking adorable, and the hunting strategies of the various species and subspecies are so varied and fascinating that they deserve to stay in a protected natural habitat. I mean, among other reasons to preserve them, obviously…they’re just such cool little omnivores!

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1904.

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