After 72 years the montane slender loris was sighted in Sri Lanka last year. This was the culmination of zoologist Saman Gamage and his team’s untiring pursuit of this elusive primate. Kumudini ...

“Come to see thevangu (slender loris in Tamil)?” asked a woman we met on the path, where she was living in a lone shack. “They emerge only at dusk. Their whistling songs announce their presence.

Notably, the Tamil Nadu Forest Department has launched several initiatives to conserve neglected species, such as the slender loris, for which the country’s first sanctuary was established ...