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IN a recent communication1, Dr. W. C. O. Hill suggests from certain evidence that “the gestation period [in Loris] is somewhere hi the neighbourhood of six months”. The following history of a pair of lorises will be of interest, and confirms Dr. Hill's opinion.
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NICHOLLS, L. Period of Gestation of Loris. Nature 143, 246 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143246a0
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