Biologists managed to photograph considered extinct primacy. Scientists could not only to photograph the thin Lori Horton Plains, but also to catch and study the three individuals of this species, writes British newspaper The Daily Telegraph. 

Loris tardigradus nycticeboides was first described in 1937, and since then scientists have seen this animal four times. Most experts believed that the thin Lory, once living in Sri Lanka and parts of southern India, all became extinct about 65 years ago.

Employees of the Zoological Society of London decided to check whether all Lori disappeared. Scientists have spent a thousand nights (Lory - nocturnal animals) in search of L. t. nycticeboides, and eventually they managed to photograph the male of this species, sitting on a branch. Later, the researchers caught three Lory and measured their anatomical parameters.

 L. t. nycticeboides are the small animals covered with a brown wool in the size about 15-25 centimetres. Huge eyes, thin Lory allow them to see well at night. According to experts, in the nature there are not more than a hundred of these animals, endangered due to destruction of their habitats - rain forests in Sri Lanka and India are being cut down by tea plantations. 

According to the most pessimistic estimates, the number Lory even less and not more than 60 specimens. If these estimations are correct, L. t. nycticeboides among the top five rarest species on earth