Bushbaby - www.junglewalk.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe Senegal Galago has long, thick and wooly fur which is usually silvery gray to brown in colour. Like their eyes, their ears are large and contain four ridges that allow them to bend back and wrinkle individual parts of their ears.\u00a0 How about that for a party trick? As you would expect this adaptation provides them with increased hearing in all directions.\u00a0 Other unique features of this crazy little bushbaby are the thickened pads on the end of their fingers and toes and their second tongue.\u00a0 I know you are excited about the second tongue but first let’s quickly discuss the thickened pads which are just flat discs of thickened skin that aid the bushbaby in climbing.\u00a0 Okay, okay onto the second tongue.\u00a0 Yes, the Senegal Galago has a cartilaginous protuberance underneath their real tongue.\u00a0 This “second tongue” is used in conjunction with their front teeth for grooming.\u00a0 Even bushbabies know good hygiene is important.<\/p>\n
That just about does it for today’s Wild Fact and like I promised the bushbaby was cute, cuddly and doesn’t take advantage of other unsuspecting animals.\u00a0 Well it might but not in a parasitic way. Have a great day folks and I will see you tomorrow for another fuzzy animal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Good news everyone!\u00a0 The week of parasites is over and we are back to cute and cuddly Wild Facts.\u00a0 I personally went out and found one of the cutest animals that we have yet to learn about just for you.\u00a0 For the record, I still think the parasites were pretty cool.\u00a0 Moving onto today’s animal, the Senegal Galago, also known as a Bush Baby. As you can probably tell by looking at them they are a nocturnal primate.\u00a0 Well you may not have been able to tell that they are nocturnal but definitely a primate. Although, the large eyes provide <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,4024],"tags":[348,1060,1062,4025,333,1061,1059],"yoast_head":"\n
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