Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun [NL.] The typical genus of the subfamily Galagininæ, containing the true galagos of Africa, of the size of a squirrel and upward.
- noun [lowercase; pl. galagos (-gōz).] A species or individual of the genus Galago or subfamily Galagininæ. See
gum-animal .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of African lemurs, including numerous species.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small,
nocturnal andarboreal Africanlemur -likeprimate , (familyGalagidae , genusGalago ) with a catlike head and very large,translucent eyes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Also known as the Senegal galago, bushbabies are small, nocturnal primates that leap from branch to branch among the treetops.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Also known as the Senegal galago, bushbabies are small, nocturnal primates that leap from branch to branch among the treetops.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Also known as the Senegal galago, bushbabies are small, nocturnal primates that leap from branch to branch among the treetops.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Also known as the Senegal galago, bushbabies are small, nocturnal primates that leap from branch to branch among the treetops.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Three species of primates are endemic to the Eastern Arc Mountains and Southern Rift, the Sanje mangabey (Cercocebus sanjei, EN), the Udzungwa red colobus (Procolobus gordonorum, VU) and the mountain dwarf galago (Galagoides orinus).
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Several new mammal species have also been discovered in recent years, including two possibly new species of dwarf galago (Galagoides spp.) on the Taita Hills and on Mt. Rungwe and potentially a new mangabey species endemic to the Udzungwa Mountains.
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There are also two endemic species of galagos (out of a total of four occurring in the hotspot): the Rondo dwarf galago (Galagoides rondoensis) in the southern Tanzanian forests, the Kenya coast galago (G. cocos) from northern Tanzania and into Kenya.
Biological diversity in the coastal forests of Eastern Africa 2008
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The northwestern limit of the ecoregion is the Sanaga River, a faunal boundary for such species as the golden angwantibo (Arctocebus aureus), white-bellied duiker (Cephalophus leucogaster), mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx), and elegant needle-clawed galago (Euoticus elegantus).
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The distribution of Demidoff's galago (Galagoides demidoff) subspecies follows a similar pattern, with G.d. anomurus and G.d. murinus found only on the right bank of the Congo and G.d. phasma found only on the left.
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The distribution of Demidoff's galago (Galagoides demidoff) subspecies follows a similar pattern, with G.d. anomurus and G.d. murinus found only on the right bank of the Congo and G.d. phasma found only on the left.
john commented on the word galago
"Galagos, also known as bushbabies, bush babies or nagapies (meaning "little night monkeys" in Afrikaans), are small, nocturnal primates native to continental Africa, and make up the family Galagidae."
-Wikipedia
October 17, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word galago
Yes, and male galagos have baculums. (I still don't know whether it's supposed to be bacula.)
October 17, 2007