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A rare slow loris may have a much larger population in China than scientists thought
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MongabayEN
September 22, 2026

A rare slow loris may have a much larger population in China than scientists thought

Plump, fuzzy and venomous, with wide eyes, a button nose and sharp teeth, northern pygmy slow lorises were thought to reside almost exclusively in Vietnam and Laos. However, new research has documented 98 of the endangered primates in Guangxi, China, in what could be the country’s largest known population of the species. The finding, published […]

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Curated from Mongabay. Classified as Environment by AI, which sometimes makes mistakes.

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