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Slow loris mascot

Slowlauris

Platoon commander Lieutenant Tony Loorparg poses with a slow loris, a small nocturnal mammal, at Nanga Mepi in Sarawak, Borneo, where B Company, 1 RNZIR Reserve Platoon was located during the Confrontation with Indonesia in 1965. 

Credit

Information and images courtesy Tony Loorparg

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Slow loris mascot, URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/slow-loris-mascot, (Manatū Taonga — Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated