Wildlife: Ondoyutung / Slow Lorris

• English: Slow Lorris
• Rungus: Ondoyutung [ohn-doh-you-toong]
• Scientific: Nycticebus coucang

No they are not monkeys. They are very much different from their primate relatives in terms of physical size, coat, personalities, intelligence, movement and social. There should be a list of it but lets just keep things simple; they're cute and cuddly!

How can we differentiate between male and female ondoyutung?

Female:

• More existent eye ring (varies from dark brown to reddish brown to almost black)
• Wider body stripe that goes from the head or continues from the eye ring down to the tail
• Longer fur (more than 1cm)
  
• Provoked and it will bite you; small wound but damn painful
• They will usually target your fingers; bite

Male:

• Less prominent eye ring, almost non-existent
• Thinner body stripe from head down to the tail
• Shorter fur
  
• Provoked and it will try to grab your hair and pull it
• They will usually target your ears; friendly lick

So lets see if anyone can guess whats the gender of these ondoyutungs^^ Answers are in the comment.


Recently, i went to Kampung Tonsom to visit Sainggim family. They have an ondoyutung pet and i had a fun time playing around with it. Lets see if you can guess its gender. Answer is in papayachannel/youtube.

I had an ondoyutung pet back in 1995. It went up a tree one night in the end of 1996 and never came back TT^TT

More info on Ondoyutung:

• Little Voice
• Cuddle me!