What I found was that they were endangered and trade was illegal, yes.

I also found that there are a lot of programs set up for ones who were taken from their natural habitats and now rely on people within the habitat programs to take care of them since they have limited survival instincts of their own.

Once I researched programs for these endangered species, I found blogs of owners who talk about the love/hate relationship they have with their slow loris’.

Apparently they are VERY needy, and become angry and even physically violent by way of biting if you do not give them the excessive attention they desire. They have unforeseeable tempers like most primate species. This probably explains why poachers remove the offspring’s teeth once captured?

My thoughts…Good thing for their owners, they’re not the size of gorillas who can maul your best friend’s face off and lock themselves in a police cruiser.

Perhaps endangered species remain in their natural habitat, and we accept the surplus of readily available domesticated species who are in danger themselves at our local adopt-a-pet centers and really need loving homes?

They’re still too cute for words though.