Conservation database for lorises (Loris, Nycticebus) and pottos (Arctocebus, Perodicticus), prosimian primates
About us and the database . Who´s who in the loris world? (information about some coauthors, including their publication lists), contact address, impressum / legal with some information about the data included; software needed to see everything, some links to other websites. Linking policy.  Any help allowing to improve this database will be appreciated; coauthors are welcome. 
Quotation of data: Dear database user, some helpers and coauthors kindly contributed data still unpublished elsewhere. If you quote or forward such data published here, please quote the author first in a reasonable way (authors: see numbers in the text, referring to numbers in the chapter references), do not quote such data under the name of the database compiler. Proposition for quoting (example): Authorname, G., 2003: data from work at the xxx Primate Rescue Station (thesis in preparation). In: Conservation database for lorises and pottos, chapter: health database, in http://www.loris-conservation.org/database/, seen on 20 February 2004.
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First aid for lorises and pottos, care for confiscated animals
Rescue station addresses
Threat: figures, information   How you can help - Thanks for help
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. 1) Taxonomy, populations .
. . Species and subspecies reviews (in preparation) ..
. . Identification key to species and subspecies (in preparation)
. . Distribution maps and additional data concerning places where animals occur or have been found in the past and museum specimen localities .
. . Database for genera, species and populations of lorises and pottos, .
. . including propositions for standardized measuring and description of lorises and pottos, information about habitats and other data relevant for conservation
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. 2) Methods for field studies and surveys; necropsy and sample collection methods: general index ...
. . Detection in the field, observation, identification marking, survey methods, other 
Information from carcasses and samples found in the wild, collection and preservation methods (in preparation)
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. 3) Reintroduction to the wild
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. 4) Captive care: general index, permanently updated information; separate index for conservation breeding, studbooks .
. . Fitch-Snyder et al 2001: Management of Asian lorises in captivity: online husbandry manual
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. .5) Diseases of lorises and pottos ..
. . Information about diseases and treatment (tables); figures allowing early recognition of problems
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. .6) Behaviour .
. . Database in preparation, at present only vocalization and literature available .
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Conservation database for lorises (Loris, Nycticebus) and pottos (Arctocebus, Perodicticus), prosimian primates
Last amendment: 18 July 2005