Book excerpt: A stunning picture book that cleverly challenges our assumptions. Slow Loris was a slow loris, very slow indeed. He lived in a zoo. The visitors thought him boring. The other animals did too. "It took Loris ten minutes to eat a satsuma...twenty minutes to get from one end of his branch to the other...and an hour to scratch his bottom. But Slow Loris didn't care. He had a wild secret life of his own.