Bengal Slow Loris

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This is a fantastic painting of a wonderful animal, and I hope your picture will be widely shared to bring the perils it faces to wider attention.

Posted by Robert Jones, NAPA on Fri 25 Nov 11:12:22

Just hanging on! Hope you are successful with your campaign to save them.

Posted by Linda Wilson on Fri 25 Nov 11:46:32

A lovely painting Pratim. I hope your campaign is successful.

Posted by Sylvia Evans on Fri 25 Nov 12:42:17

Your paintings are always exceptional.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Fri 25 Nov 18:35:08

Thanks Robert Jones Sir... If painters online Admins. make it a choice of their own then the news spread more...but they didnt show any interest ever on my wildlife and bird paintings... Thanks Linda Wilson Maam ... Thanks SYLVIA EVANS maam ... Thanks Res. Gudrun Stahl Sharpley ...

Posted by Pratim Das on Mon 28 Nov 02:52:54

This is fascinating reading, Pratim, and a beautiful portrait of the loris. Is the species related to the animal which I know as the Sloth, I wonder...it certainly would appear to be, with very similar facial features and muscular feet.

Posted by Ruth Dolan on Tue 29 Nov 10:03:59

Thanks Ruth Dolan maam ... No I think...

Posted by Pratim Das on Wed 07 Dec 03:22:33

Hang on Studio Wall

25/11/2016

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***SHARE THE POST TO SAVE THEM*** Bengal Slow Loris... water colour... 10*10 inch...2016.. The Bengal slow loris (Nycticebus bengalensis) or northern slow loris is a strepsirrhine primate and a species of slow loris native to the Indian subcontinent and Indochina. Its geographic range is larger than that of any other slow loris species. Considered a subspecies of the Sunda slow loris (N. coucang) until 2001, phylogenetic analysis suggests that the Bengal slow loris is most closely related to the Sunda slow loris. However, some individuals in both species have mitochondrial DNA sequences that resemble those of the other species, due to introgressive hybridization. It is the largest species of slow loris, measuring 26 to 38 cm (10 to 15 in) from head to tail and weighing between 1 and 2.1 kg (2.2 and 4.6 lb). Like other slow lorises, it has a wet nose (rhinarium), a round head, flat face, large eyes, small ears, a vestigial tail, and dense, woolly fur. The toxin it secretes from its brac

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