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Grey slender loris
A palm-sized nocturnal primate with enormous forward-facing eyes, which climbs hand over hand and never jumps.
👀 How to recognise it
Only after dark, and only with a guided walk: a red eyeshine at torchlight, high in a continuous canopy. It needs branches that touch, so it disappears wherever a canopy is cut.
Protection
Schedule I, Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972 - the highest level of protection in India
Where to see it
Bengaluru
In Kannada it is kaadu paapa, 'forest baby'. A citizen-science project run out of the Indian Institute of Science has been mapping the city's lorises since the 2010s; some Bengaluru residents still treat the animal as an ill omen, which is itself a conservation problem. The lorises still live in the city's older tree patches.
Turahalli Forest · Bannerghatta Biological Park
Tirumala
A 2025 Andhra Pradesh Forest Department survey counted 419 slender lorises in the Seshachalam forests of the Sri Venkateswara sanctuary, where a decade earlier the count had been in double digits.
Talakona Waterfall