"Researchers have recognized several new species of Borneo’s lemur-like primate, the mind-shatteringly adorable slow loris. Published this week in the American Journal of Primatology, the team’s work officially splits the slow loris community into four distinct species, promoting two former subspecies to full species status in their own right, and recognizing one entirely new species, the kayan loris, pictured above." Source: New Species Of Slow Loris Recognized, Is As Cute, Endangered As All Other Slow Lorises | Geekosystem See also: Discovered: The new species of Borneo's enigmatic primate with a toxic bite
More mammal splitting! I haven't looked for the actual paper yet, but from that article it appears they split the species on the basis of facial markings which seems a bit of a stretch. Also, what's with the sentence starting off the last paragraph?! "There’s no word yet on whether or not this new species of loris likes playing with little cocktail umbrellas like the one in the video below, but we certainly hope that is the case, because it is adorable."
thanks for the link condor. I had a look the other day but couldn't find it then. It will be interesting to see what happens if anyone decides to explore the genetic side of these new splits!
