Sindhu Radhakrishna is associated with the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. Her research interests are in the fields of primate behaviour and communication, and she is currently involved in studying the sociobiology of the two strepsirrhine species of India, the slender loris and the slow loris.

Of the 20 or more extant mammalian orders, the order Primates is surely the most fascinating for us humans, as we too belong to this order; and the evolution of primate morphology and behaviour has important bearings on the development of our own society and culture. Most of us are familiar with the group-living sociality of the commensal monkeys and some of the bigger apes like the chimpanzees and the gorillas. However, another group of primates, the nocturnal strepsirrhines, which are equally fascinating in their behaviour and ecology, remain virtually unknown due to their small size and nocturnal habits. In this article I discuss the social behaviour of the slender loris, a nocturnal strepsirrhine found in India.

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Address for Correspondence

Sindhu Radhakrishna
National Institute of Advanced Studies,
IISc Campus
Bangalore 560 012, India.
Email:sindhu@nias.iisc.ernet.in