Gabon Bushbaby

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Gabon Bushbaby[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Galagidae
Genus: Galago
Species: G. gabonensis
Binomial name
Galago gabonensis
Gray, 1863

The Gabon Bushbaby (Galago gabonensis) is a species of primate in the Galagidae family. It lives in Camaroon, Gabon and the Congo Republic.[1] Its head and body length is 8.5 inches with a 10 inch tail, and it weighs about 10 ounces. It lives in evergreen tropical rainforests and eats primarily fallen fruit, but also some anthropods. It was originally included within the species Galago alleni, but that species is now restriced to the population on Bioko Island.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 124. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
  2. ^ Answers.com Animal Encyclopedia Gabon Allen's Bushbaby.
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