Etymologies
- bush + baby (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Well, what do you expect when the Australian astronomy program consists of Paul Hogan, Yahoo Serious and a bushbaby?”
“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.”
“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.”
“In one case the researchers saw a chimp remove a dead bushbaby and eat it.”
“Species top to bottom: emperor tamarin, silvery marmoset, gray langur, bushbaby”
“I can imagine a bushbaby, under attack, repeating the immortal words of Charlton Heston, “Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!””
Waldo Jaquith - I, for one, welcome our spear-wielding chimp overlords.
“Something sweeped above, a flash of a glowing red eye – a bushbaby, perhaps?”
“I just saw an article about a chimp in criminal proceedings for murdering and eating a bushbaby.”
“In the single instance in which a chimpanzee was observed to extract a bushbaby, it was unknown whether the prey was alive or dead after the use of the tool, but it made no attempts to escape, nor did it utter any vocalization.”
“Jane Goodall kept a bushbaby as a pet during her early years at Gombe.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bushbaby’.
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• De rerum natura
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Interesting words in nature and natural science (in any language!).
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You can add species names that you lov...lagerstätte, parthenogenesis, bushbaby, lepidoptera, dinoflagellate, pupation, chrysalis, ephemeroptera, deinococcus radio..., homoplasy, sciophilous, syncytium and 218 more...
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primates
big ones,small ones,as many as
I can findangwantibo, babacoote, baboon, bandar, bandari, bobbejaan, bonobo, bushbaby, cebid, ceboid, chacma, chimp and 102 more...
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Animals (besides pottos)
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robin, wagtail, frog, bunny, pronk, rabbit, fur, badger, mouse, bee, crepuscular, purr and 140 more...
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ynaffit's Words
sedulous, vituperative, pullulating, erstwhile, imbroglio, asperity, cynosure, adumbrate, prosopopoeia, peerless, calumny, ague and 272 more...
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Animals that Have Baculums (Bacula? B...
It might be easier to list the animal classes that don't have these: humans, equids, marsupials, lagomorphs, and hyenas. Who knew? Besides skipvia, I mean?
This article states clearly ...walrus, otter, raccoon, mink, beaver, rat, gorilla, chimpanzee, canid, felid, bat, bushbaby and 5 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bushbaby.

john See galago. Oct 17, 2007