From the previous ongoing poll I've made, It seems like there's an overwhelmingly favouritism towards mammals in this sub-reddit which quite surprised me and thought it'd have been more evenly spread. Yet I just found out no one has ever shared this intriguing mammal in this group before.

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Here it is! A slow loris. I believe many had heard of it's name before but have never seen them in person. And that's normal.

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The Sunda Slow Loris ( Nycticebus coucang ) are from the suborder Strepsirrhini, the "wet-nosed primate" a more primitive branch of Primates which included the lemurs, galagos, potoos and the slow loris, as opposed to the Haplorhines , the "dry nosed primate" which included the Tarsiers, new and old world monkeys , and Apes ( us! ).

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The slow lorises are nocturnal and are shy in nature, so most people may live their life in celibate without knowing they ever existed.  And maybe some of you already know that the slow lorises are also well know for them being the only few mammals in the world to posses venom, you heard that right, venom! They have a special glands near thier armpits , they would lick it there and mix the oils produced by the gland and produce a venomous compound, which they then deliver a venomous bite through their specially grooved teeth, like a venomous snake!

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They're actually quite common, but due to their secretive and nocturnal nature, seldom have seen them. Not for me though. I've personally seem them quite a few time. But this is the only time one was caught lackin in the open, climbing on the electric cable near a rural area, so I consider this encounter lucky ! Despite called the slow loris, they're actually surprisingly fast when they need to be. But of course not as agile as a monkey. 

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A peculiar primate