Animals • November 6, 2026

Venomous Primate Believed Extinct for 100 Years Was Hiding in Plain Sight All Along

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Venomous Primate Believed Extinct for 100 Years Was Hiding in Plain Sight All Along

This big-eyed furball is the Bangka slow loris, a creature that in 2015 was believed to potentially be extinct. As the video demonstrates, the Bangka slow loris (N. bancanus) is still very much with us—thanks to a local wildlife organization on the island of Bangka that had been rescuing and returning them to the wild

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