Slow down and check out our adorable slow lorises! To celebrate Slow Loris Outreach Week, we asked keepers to share photos and videos of the zoo's three lorises: Havarti, Ricotta and Mai Ly. Harvati and Ricotta live in the Akron Zoo's nocturnal animal building, while Mai Ly, one of the oldest slow lorises in the world, lives in retirement in the zoo's animal hospital. The pygmy slow loris is a small primate, standing at just six to ten inches long and weighing around two pounds. Lorises do not h

The bright-eyed pygmy slow loris is undoubtedly cute, but the illegal pet trade and popular social media videos threaten their existence. Humans can be the problem or the solution, it's up to us. Let's make this go viral for the right reasons! | San Diego Zoo