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Pygmy slow loris

Xanthonycticebus pygmaeus

名字的由來： The name 'pygmy' refers to its small size compared with other slow lorises.1

只是會痛會痛，但不會對你造成嚴重傷害。

有毒液的哺乳動物

咬吃：每樣都來一點

對人的危險: 疼痛可能會非常痛，但幾乎從來不會很嚴重。

The pygmy slow loris is a small, nocturnal primate that moves slowly through forest trees at night. It lives in parts of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and China. It is one of the few primates that can produce a toxic bite, which makes it special and very rare.1

分布在

East of the Mekong River in Vietnam, Laos, eastern Cambodia and China1

亞洲

首頁

It lives in forests, including tropical dry forest, semi-evergreen forest and evergreen forest. It spends its time in trees, crawling along branches rather than leaping.1

長度

20 cm 到 23 cm (7,7 in 到 9,1 in)1

體重

360 g 到 580 g (13 oz 到 1,3 lb)1

最高速度

大約 2 km/h（1,2 mph）

在陸地上, 粗略估計

牠吃什麼？

It eats fruits, insects, small animals, tree sap and floral nectar. It moves slowly along branches while searching for prey.1

Pygmy slow loris 的照片 — Pygmy slow loris。照片：Long Vu。 CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

怎麼認出牠

Rings around the eyes that are seal brown in adults and darker in young animals1
A white stripe running from the nose up to the forehead1
Small black ears, about 23 mm long, with no fur on the tips1
A rufous to brownish-black stripe along the back, from the nape to the middle of the lower back1
Silvery white hands and feet with yellowish-white nails1

常被誤認為： The Bengal slow loris (N. bengalensis) lives in some of the same areas, near the border of southern China and Vietnam. The two can be told apart by differences in their chromosomes, not by appearance alone.1

毒液力量

咬

咬的時候，毒液會從毒牙或牙齒出來。

牠的毒液有什麼作用？

The bite is toxic. The animal licks a clear, oily secretion from glands on the inside of its elbows and mixes it with its saliva, which creates a noxious toxin. The secretion contains over 200 chemical components, and one of them is a protein similar to an allergen found in cat dander. In people who are sensitive to it, this can cause anaphylaxis, a severe allergic reaction.1

牠對人有多危險？

對人的危險: 疼痛可能會非常痛，但幾乎從來不會很嚴重。

The main risk is anaphylaxis, which can affect people who are sensitive to the protein in its secretion.1

牠害怕時會做什麼？

When startled, it licks the secretion from its elbow glands and spreads it over its head.1

如果牠咬人

把傷口徹底洗乾淨，並且就醫。

一定要先打緊急電話（112、000、911）。這是一般急救指引，不是醫療建議。急救基本知識

注意安全

絕對不要碰、抓或捉弄野生動物，就算是很小的動物，就算牠看起來在睡覺或已經死了也一樣。
給牠空間。如果遇到了，保持冷靜，慢慢往後退，讓牠自己離開。
如果被牠咬了：保持冷靜，保持不動，打緊急電話（112、000、911）或趕快去醫院。記住牠的樣子，有照片會很有幫助。

牠不是想來抓你。牠用毒液來捕捉食物或保護自己，而且牠更想躲起來。更多安全知識

在世界上的哪裡？

非洲亞洲歐洲北美洲南美洲澳洲與大洋洲

牠有多大？

牠有多長？

牠有多重？

跟 5 根香蕉一樣重

跟 7 塊玩具積木排成一排一樣長可以在 180 秒內跑完 100 公尺（最快的人類需要 9.6 秒）

Pygmy slow loris 跟「你」比起來有多大？

只是在你的瀏覽器裡做算術。什麼都不會儲存，也不會傳送到任何地方。

牠有多快？

一隻陸龜 大約 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Pygmy slow loris 大約 2 km/h (1,2 mph)

一個正在走路的人 大約 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

值得知道

小知識

Its lower teeth form a comb-like toothcomb, which it uses for grooming and for scraping resin from tree bark.1

Its weight changes with the seasons. Adults can be about 50 percent heavier in winter than in summer, and individuals up to 700 grams have been recorded.1

Unlike most other primates, it does not leap. It moves by crawling slowly along branches.1

Males mark their territories with scent, and females prefer males whose scent is familiar.1

Females are only fertile for a short time each year, so mating opportunities are rare.1

破解迷思

迷思： Animals found near Hòa Bình in Vietnam were a separate species, N. intermedius.

真相： DNA analysis showed these were adults of the pygmy slow loris. Differences in dorsal stripes and silvery hairs are seasonal variation.1

給毒液專家

學名: Xanthonycticebus pygmaeus
類群: 有毒液的哺乳動物
家人: Lorisidae2
排序: Primates
各大洲: 亞洲
寶寶: It usually has one or two offspring after a gestation of about six months, and the young cling to their mother's belly for the first few days.1
壽命: 大約 20 年1
牠在野外的狀況: Endangered1
對人的危險: 2 / 5: 疼痛3