Sulus

The Sulus are a bloodthirsty and hard-hearted race, and, when an opportunity occurs, are not always averse to kidnapping even their own countrymen and selling them into slavery.

British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo 1884

There were no Sulus or Worfs on that crew until it was far too late.

Matthew Yglesias » The Final Frontier 2009

The Sulus (Sangasanga, Bongao, Simunul, Tawitawi) also support a population of slow loris (Nycticebus coucang), a Sundaic primate that is not found in the remainder of the Philippines.

Sulu Archipelago rain forests 2008

A new pig species, Sus spp. nov., is being described from the Sulus on the basis of MtDNA and skull measurements from a dead specimen.

Sulu Archipelago rain forests 2008

Palawan was the main pathway for immigrants from Borneo to the Philippines, and the Sulus have many taxa that are identical to or derived from taxa in Mindanao.

Sulu Archipelago rain forests 2008

However, the Sulus were not clearly above-water islands until within the last 15 million years.

Sulu Archipelago rain forests 2008

Even Sibutu, close to Borneo and separated from the rest of the Sulus by the Sibutu Passage, contains an avifauna more closely related to the Sulus than to Borneo.

Sulu Archipelago rain forests 2008

The same subspecies of bearded pig found on Borneo (Sus barbatus barbatus) is also found in the southwestern Sulus (Sibutu and Tawitawi), and this species can still be observed crossing open water to reach these islands from Borneo.

Sulu Archipelago rain forests 2008

The Sulus are located south of the main typhoon track that so strongly influences the more northerly Philippine islands.

Sulu Archipelago rain forests 2008

The EBA contains nine restricted-range birds, four of which are limited to the Sulus.

Sulu Archipelago rain forests 2008