. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE GliAKD GALAGO. with a short, higli, almost pointed nose. The delicate woolly fur of th< 1 od\ k Hj^tlu ns xrid daikens on the tail, most so towai'ds its end. Smith observes that they spring fiom bi im li to branch, and tree to tree, with extraordinary facility, and always seize with one of theu foi e feet the bi .inch upon which they intend to rest. In then- manners they manifest considerable resembhnct to Monk( ys, particularly in their propensity to the practice of ridiculous gi-imaces and gesticulations. It spends the daytime in
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE GliAKD GALAGO. with a short, higli, almost pointed nose. The delicate woolly fur of th< 1 od\ k Hj^tlu ns xrid daikens on the tail, most so towai'ds its end. Smith observes that they spring fiom bi im li to branch, and tree to tree, with extraordinary facility, and always seize with one of theu foi e feet the bi .inch upon which they intend to rest. In then- manners they manifest considerable resembhnct to Monk( ys, particularly in their propensity to the practice of ridiculous gi-imaces and gesticulations. It spends the daytime in the nests which it forms for itself in the forks of branches, or in the cavities of decayed trees; and in these nests the females also produce and rear their young, of which there are generally two at a birtli. Sir John Kirk found it common among the hills of Keb'abassi, Batoka, and Nyassa, in East Africa. Pie says singly and in pairs they came about the camp-fires at night, and in the dim light I'esembled a Bat in movements, by crossing from side to side, at single leaps, distances of six feet. A pair- which lived a few years ago m the Zoological Gardens wei-e a most interestingly tendei couple. The day s;iw them nestled lovingly m then little box, and as night wore on they would peep out and cautiously and by stealth venture into theu moie spacious cage. Creeping down the branch, whu' served as a ladder, so noLselessly that not a mo\ erne i could be heard, they would suddenly spring hith i and thither, not like ordinary cjuadrupeds, but in <i manner only to be compared with the leap and dait of a Tree Frog (Ilyla). Approaching a dish of Meil worms laid out for them, they would snap them \x\i with their forepaws so quickly that the eye could not follow the motion ; this rapidity of action equalled the Cliamjeleon's tongue, protrusion and with di-awal baffles the eye, the fly gone being the maui fact the observer is of They seemed heaitily to enjoy the Meal
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