A baby Slender Loris
(Reuters) Updated: 2007-01-17 14:34

A baby Slender Loris is seen in this undated handout image
released by the Zoological Society of London on January 15, 2007. Scientists
launched a bid on Tuesday to save some of the world's rarest and most neglected
creatures from extinction. With an initial list of just 10, including a venomous
shrew-like creature, an egg-laying mammal and the world's smallest bat, the
programme will give last ditch conservation aid where to date there has been
little or none. [Reuters]
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