Distribution
The species has the largest geographic range of all slow loris species and is native to Indian subcontinent (Northeast India and Bangladesh) and Indochina (Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Vietnam, southern China and Thailand). It is the only nocturnal primate found in the northeast Indian states, which include Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur and Tripura. It is found in parts of Yunnan and in southwest Guangxi in China, and has been recorded in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh. It is known from 24 protected areas in Vietnam, and is distributed across most of Thailand. In Burma, it has been reported from Bhamo, Sumprabum, Kindat, Chin Hills, Pathein, Thaungdaung and Pegu; populations in Laos have been recorded in the north, central, and southern portions of the country.
The Bengal slow loris is sympatric (shares its range) with the pygmy slow loris in southeast of China, Vietnam, and Laos. The Bengal slow loris is also sympatric with the Sunda slow loris on the southern peninsula of Thailand. In 2001, Groves reported the existence of hybrids between these two species in this region.
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