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  • noun Plural form of bushbaby.

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Examples

  • Mother bushbabies carry their newborns in their mouths.

    ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010

  • Also known as the Senegal galago, bushbabies are small, nocturnal primates that leap from branch to branch among the treetops.

    ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010

  • Mother bushbabies carry their newborns in their mouths.

    ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010

  • Mother bushbabies carry their newborns in their mouths.

    ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010

  • Mother bushbabies carry their newborns in their mouths.

    ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010

  • Also known as the Senegal galago, bushbabies are small, nocturnal primates that leap from branch to branch among the treetops.

    ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010

  • Also known as the Senegal galago, bushbabies are small, nocturnal primates that leap from branch to branch among the treetops.

    ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010

  • Also known as the Senegal galago, bushbabies are small, nocturnal primates that leap from branch to branch among the treetops.

    ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010

  • Some plants and animals -- like tiny little shrews with elephant-like trunks known as elephant shrews and nocturnal primates with large eyes known as bushbabies -- are thought to have evolved early in the species lineage, known as 'primitive' or 'ancient relic lineages.'

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • Jill Pruetz at Iowa State University has observed chimpanzees using spears to hunt for bushbabies.

    Boing Boing 2007

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