Slow Loris rescued in Assam Meghalaya border

Guwahati, January 29, 2019:

A local from Boko’s Barpara village, Mono Kalita and his friends rescued a Slow Loris at Nowapara village under Boko Police Station.

Mono Kalita spotted the slow loris while returning from Lumpi near Assam Meghalaya border.

The loris has been handed over to the Boko Forest Range and later released in the jungle.

Slow lorises are a group of several species of nocturnal strepsirrhine primates that make up the genus Nycticebus. Found in Southeast Asia and bordering areas, they range from Bangladesh and Northeast India in the west to the Sulu Archipelago in the Philippines in the east, and from Yunnan province in China in the north to the island of Java in the south.