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Consider the following planar real polynomial system: \[ \begin{aligned} \dot x & = x[\mu+ x+ by+\varepsilon(ex^2+ fxy+ gy^2)],\\ \dot y & = y[-B\mu+ cx- y+ \varepsilon(\delta+ hx^2+ jxy+ ky^2)],\end{aligned}\tag{1} \] first investigated by \textit{H. Zoladek} [J. Differ. Equations 67, 1-55 (1987; Zbl 0648.34068)] in which \(\varepsilon> 0\) is a small parameter, \(\mu=\pm 1\), \(\delta\in\mathbb{R}\), \(B= (1-c)/(1+ b)\). If \[ A= -1- bc>0,\quad 1+ b>0,\quad 1-c> 0,\quad \mu=-1,\tag{2} \] then (1) has a first integral when \(\varepsilon= 0\), and a family of closed orbits \(\{L_n\}\) in the first quadrant, whose boundary \(L_0\) is a triangular heteroclinic cycle. When \(e= f= j= k= 0\), \textit{Y. A. Kuznetsov} in his monograph [Elements of applied bifurcation theory. Applied Mathematical Sciences. 112, New York: Springer-Verlag (1991; Zbl 0829.58029)] obtained that a nonreduced condition for the Hopf bifurcation is: \[ b(1+ b)h+ c(c- 1)g\neq 0.\tag{3} \] In the present paper, by using formulae of Hopf bifurcation curve and heteroclinic bifurcation curve obtained in the monograph [Bifurcation theory of differential equation] by the author and \textit{Zhu Deming}, he proves the theorem: Under conditions (2) and (3) there exists an \(\varepsilon_0> 0\), such that when \(0<\varepsilon\leq \varepsilon_0\) and \(\delta\) sufficiently small, system (1) has at most one limit cycle in the neighborhood of \(L_0\). A similar theorem on the global uniqueness of limit cycles for system (1) is also obtained.