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The Morning GIF: Slow loris eating rice

Move over, cats.

 

Lorraine Murphy

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Posted on Aug 24, 2012   Updated on Jun 2, 2021, 12:16 pm CDT

Here at the Daily Dot, we swap GIF images with each other every morning. Now we’re looping you in. In the Morning GIF, we feature a popular—or just plain cool—GIF we found on Reddit, Canvas, or elsewhere on the Internet.

It’s a summer Friday. The days are getting shorter, the nights encroaching into the hours that had previously been reserved for lingering twilights. The pleasures of the season shrink in accordance with the span of time left to them.

And so, we bring you a GIF of a slow loris eating sticky rice.

Shhhh, don’t ask questions. Just relax. Surrender to the mellow endorphin flood.

This guy makes kittens look like overcaffeinated hyenas. Enjoy.

This GIF, part of a set of three that spent a good chunk of yesterday on the front page of Reddit, has had 332,982 views on Imgur in 19 hours, and comes from this YouTube video of a shy pet loris being coaxed out of his box with tasty, tasty plain white rice. Apparently what bacon is to the Internet, rice is to the slow loris.

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*First Published: Aug 24, 2012, 7:27 am CDT