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Nursed back to health, the tiny baby pygmy slow loris weighing less than a CD when dumped by its mother
The pygmy slow loris - who was abandoned by its first-time mother - weighed just 22 grams when it was born
Dedicated zookeepers have worked round the clock to care for a baby pygmy slow loris that weighed less than a single AA battery at birth.
The pygmy slow loris - who was abandoned by its first-time mother - weighed just 22 grams when it was born.
But its twin did not survive the birth and keepers at Paignton zoo stepped in to care for the big-eyed creature - which has not yet been named.
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Head mammal keeper Craig Gilchrist slept in an office in the Zoo on its first night and fed the palm-sized mammal every few hours using a 1ml syringe and a small rubber teat.
Seven keepers now take it in turns to feed the tiny baby both day and night.
But now, at a month's old, the nocturnal mammal has thrived and weighs 30 grams - the weight of a dessert spoon.
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When fully grown the tiny mammal will only weigh around 500g or less.
Keeper Lewis Rowden: "You have to take care not to squirt the milk into the lungs - you have to let the baby suckle at its own rate. We are just moving on to feeding some solids now - small amounts of mashed boiled sweet potato".
The baby currently sleeps in an incubator - and snuggles a furry toy from the Paignton Zoo shop.
The pygmy slow loris is classified as vulnerable and is facing extinction in the wild.
The species is native to the forests of South East Asia and eats a diet of insects, fruit, slugs and snails.
The Vietnam War nearly wiped out this species of loris as forests were burned or defoliated. Today, the destruction of forests continues today due to agriculture and development.
