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The Bangka slow loris, a small venomous primate from Indonesia’s Bangka Island, had not appeared in scientific publications since the 1930s, and the IUCN Red List classes it as critically endangered and possibly extinct. A study in Spixiana now shows that the animal has persisted, unnoticed by researchers, although local people kept finding it in gardens, beside roads and on power lines. The evidence comes from the Alobi Wildlife Rescue Center, which took in more than 90 of these lorises between 2015 and 2025 after residents or local officials reported them. Rescues were recorded in each of the island’s four regencies and also in Pangkal Pinang, so the species could still be widespread. Of these, 86 recovered and went back to seven forest sites. Still, Alobi’s director warns that illegal tin mining and oil palm clearing leave it very close to extinction, while the authors, citing threats from roads and power lines, urge surveys, genetic studies and habitat protection.