NATURAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA 



The Great Galago usually sleeps by day amongst 

 the fronds of the cocoa-nut palms, and when alarmed 

 it springs through the air from one palm to another, 

 and it is quite useless attempting to follow it up 

 with the idea of capturing it alive. There is only 

 one way by which it is captured. A pot of palm 

 wine is left on the trunk of a palm tree, and perceiving 

 it, the galago drinks so freely of the fermented juice 

 that it actually gets drunk, falls to the ground, and 

 staggers about at random. 



Its diet and habits, both in its native habitat and 

 in captivity, are practically similar to those of the 

 other galagos. 



There are three other species of galagos included 

 amongst the South African animals. One is the 

 Zululand Galago (Galago zuluensis), which has been 

 found to occur in Zululand ; Grant's Galago (Galago 

 grantt), and the Mossambique Galago (Galago mos- 

 sambicus) from the north-east corner of the forest 

 regions of South Africa. 



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