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Pygmy slow loris hibernates in winter

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PRIMATE CHILL  The pygmy slow loris in Vietnam is upsetting an old idea that lemurs are the only primates that hibernate.

Tilo Nadler

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

The pygmy slow loris truly hibernates, making it the first primate found outside Madagascar to do so, a new study says.

“Up until now there were only three species of primate known to hibernate: all lemurs in Madagascar,” says Thomas Ruf of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna.