New VENONOUS species of slow loris found !

Nycticebus kayan
Until this point the only mammal that was venomous were a few members of shrews and Order Monotremata; family Omithorhynchidae (If I missed an order, please tell me..I've got to learn this stuff for a living ).

"To access its poison, a slow loris rubs its hands under glands near its armpits. Then the animal applies the poison to its teeth, and the resulting bite can put a person or predator into potentially fatal anaphylactic shock"

Oh nature, you never stop impressing me!

Venomous Primate Discovered in Borneo


If this is the wrong thread, please move sorry !

 

Shrews aren't rodents? :S what order are they apart of? I wrote Rodentia just to generalize because i could of sworn the were ..whoops! . I've got the orignal posted edited now ( Thanks bunches! )

Thanks tho! still getting use to the forums If a mod wants to delete this thread they can as theres already a thread on this topic

 

To clarify, Chlidonias, are you saying echidnas are venomous?

Seems to be overkill, doesn't it?

 

Platypus to my knowledge echidnas arent at least, even tho the males have a spur on their hind legs like the platypus but its not connected to a venom gland

 

I know about platypus. But why say 'monotremes' when you're referring to just one species?

 

ahh I see your point

 

Outfoxed by a swan. Very much, I like.

 

Outfoxed by a man with a rodent as his avatar- nice!

~Thylo

 

Eh? Chlidonias' avatar is an otter!

 

Nah, just hadn't heard about it, but figured you'd be able to link to something like that.

 

Oh I thought it was a Nutia or some kind of beaver. My bad.

Outfoxed by a man with an otter as his avatar- nice!

~Thylo

 

Other zoochat thread about this here.
Link to article that formed the basis for the split here.

 

It is a nutria if you speak Spanish.

 

I ment Nutria. I'm actually part Puerto Rican so I do speak a little spanish. iHola! Me llamo Thylo, (upside-down question mark) Como te llamas? (upside-down question mark) Tu hablas espanol?

That was very basic stuff, though, and for all you know I just looked that up on Google Translate (didn't, though).

~Thylo

 

I didn't actually notice your typo!

My Spanish is very limited (mostly ordering food and suchlike) but I always remember that 'nutria' means otter!

 

Nutria is also an alternate name for the Coypu (Nutria is the name I prefer). Koala is the Spanish name for Koala There's no letter K in any original spanish word so it's pronounced the same and spelled the same. Same deal with pizza but Z is in the Spanish alphabet.

~Thylo

 

#Tu hablas español?

Not really good, but i can speak a little.
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Realy cool, new species are always good findings.

 

Oop, another typo. Thanks for that catch. For it to be hables, the word would have to be habler instead of hablar.

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So that's two new species of primates announced this year. First the Lesula and now this guy. The Myanmar Snub-Nosed Monkey is the only one I knew of before then.