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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Galagidae — the bushbabies or nagapies.

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Examples

  • This includes four endemic or nearly endemic species of primate – the Sanje Mangabey, the Iringa Red Colobus, the Mountain Galago and the new Kipunji monkey that forms its own monotypic genus.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • There are small primate populations of potto Perodicticus potto, western black and white colobus Colobus polykomos, red colobus Colobus badius (EN), diana monkey Cercopithecus diana (EN), lesser bushbaby Galago senegalensi and chimpanzees Pan troglodytes (EN) which are close neighbors of the tool-using population in Bossou.

    Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire 2008

  • I hope the people at Galago won't kill me for showing this.

    Under Sheets Niklas Asker 2010

  • I hope the people at Galago won't kill me for showing this.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Niklas Asker 2010

  • Three species of primate are found within the montane forests, blue monkey Cercopithecus mitis, western black and white colobus Colobus polykomos abyssinicus, and bushbaby Galago sp. and among mammals found there are leopards Panthera pardus, as well as some of the species listed above.

    Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania 2009

  • Few nocturnal species have been studied, but serval Felis serval may be common, also lesser bush baby Galago senegalensis.

    Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic 2009

  • Other mammals found here include Samango monkeys (Cercopithecus albogularis) and the thick-tailed bush baby (Galago crassicaudatus), both of which are dependent on forested habitat.

    KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic 2007

  • He'd brought in Galago, a second cousin by courtesy.

    Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

  • The same character is more marked in an African genus of half-apes (Galago), and still more so in a third half-ape (Tarsius), from the island of Banca.

    The Common Frog 1874

  • The weather was still clear and the wind light; they proceeded cautiously, on account of the reefs and currents, and with a careful watch for the piratical vessels, which have for centuries infested those seas; but they were not molested, and had gained well up among the islands to the north of Galago, when it fell calm, and the vessel was borne to the eastward of it by the current.

    The Phantom Ship Frederick Marryat 1820

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