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The easternmost known record of the slow loris,Nycticebus coucang, is Tawitawi, Philippines. A report of this species in Mindanao, 500 km northeast of Tawitawi, is based on a mislabeled specimen.
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Fooden, J. Eastern limit of distribution of the slow loris,Nycticebus coucang . International Journal of Primatology 12, 287–290 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02547589
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