02 November 2013

"Cute" animals in the media: the case of the slow loris



If one googles "slow loris" or their genus "Nycticebus", some of the videos mentioned by Prof. Anna Nekaris immediately pop up – together with the comments of viewers who think that slow lorises are pets.

For additional information, see:

Nekaris KA-I, Campbell N, Coggins TG, Rode EJ, Nijman V (2013)
Tickled to death: analysing public perceptions of ‘cute’ videos of threatened species (slow lorises – Nycticebus spp.) on web 2.0 sites. PLoS ONE 8(7): e69215.

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