Slow Loris - damned gremlin

Once there was  a popular thriller - movie story about small creatures who invided our planet . They were very cheeky and very dangerous as roamed in large numbers. Although at first they seemed to be cute , quickly became hated . Shortly speaking, the gremlins have become a symbol of something opressive .

The new BBC documentary ,which I have freshly seen , " Slow Loris - jungle gremlin " , shows things differently. As the hollywood story is fictional , real jungle gremlins are now revealed. But of course , that's the different case. There is no specimen on the planet able to be dangerous for us , humans . In reality , we are dreadful danger to the " jungle gremlins" - slow lorises .
 
                                                  Pulling out Slow Loris' front teeth .

The specimen has become very popular as a pet animal , due to be considered  very cute. The animal lives in the south-east Asia's rainforests , and as it's name indicates , moves slowly. That means , this particular subspecies of bigger Loris family , related to lemurs , is very vulnerable. So to protect themselves from bigger predators , and for hunt , slow loris has got a toxic bite , what is rare among mammals.

Slow lorises has become depopulated , and listed as endangered , mainly because of deforestation and pet trade. Slow loris has been long used in traditional medicine in the South-East Asia , but now additionally as an object of exotic pet trade . It's possible to sell  one slow loris to Japan or Russia for 2500 $ , but as documentary showed , on the local pet market in Jacarta tourists can purchase this animal for mere 25 $ . And pochers in order to deliver them to sellers , pull out or cut their front teeth , to evoid toxic bite. What results in infections ; many animals dies. As hidden camera showed , they are kept in cages or plastic boxes , often couple of them squeezed  cruelly .

This is of course merciless , just sheer desire to get profit . But another fact , pointed out by the author of this documentary, is even worse  for me. The slow loris as a pet has been popularized via Internet . The You Tube video of owner tickling slow loris has reached 12 milions views . Many of these pets are thrown away after some time . One Indonesian woman owning this small primate , after her pet had started to stink ,  has to now wash her loris once a week .

I ask you . Do really people have to be so spoilt ,to not take into an account that keeping not domesticated , exotic animals brings problems for either keepers and their pets ? That's not snake sleeping in one spot most of the time , although snakes should be left to live in the natural environment as well .
I wanted to place another photo of slow loris to show how it looks , but I have changed my mind  finishing this post . I don't want to help exotic pet's traders to get more money .