Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
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The Horton Plains Slender Loris Shouldn't Even Bother Trying To Lie To Scientists

jeepers creepersIt's definitely nice to learn that a species thought to be extinct for 65 years is still on the planet. Specially one as cool and freaky-looking as the Horton Plains slender loris, which was recently found and photographed, for the first time ever, in a jungle in Sri Lanka by the Zoological Society of London. Where has this short-limbed, huge-eyed nocturnal primate been hiding all this time? We'll have the answer soon. With those giant peepers, that thing doesn't stand a chance of keeping any secrets from the hot new eye-tracking lie-detector system developed by psychologists at the University of Utah. Says Gerald Sanders, of the company, Credibility Assessment Technologies, that is now commercializing the system:

"The eye-tracking method for detecting lies has great potential. It's a matter of national security that our government agencies have the best and most advanced methods for detecting truth from fiction, and we believe we are addressing that need by licensing the extraordinary research done at the University of Utah."

That's right, loris, so out with it! Where were you on all the nights between 1932 and 2002?

6 Comments / Post A Comment

hockeymom (#143)

Distant cousin of the Star Bellied Sneetch?

Art Yucko (#1,321)

Time to engineer a memory-erasing Sloth.

KarenUhOh (#19)

I'm no Eye Detector, but judging from those two burnt holes in a blanket, I'd say he's been playing poker with bulldogs in a smoke-filled room.

garge (#736)

I see a fur collar with two red lacquered buttons.

hockeymom (#143)

PETA holding on line two, Ms. Garge.

deepomega (#1,720)

Not as cute as the Slow Loris.

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