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but their manners and habits are about the 

 same. 



They are, like the kinkajou, night - lovers. 

 During the day they prefer to sleep, rolled up 

 into a ball, but at night they are as full of 

 pranks as a monkey. They will jump about, 

 holding themselves upright like a kangaroo, 

 from the floor to a table, or to a person's shoul- 

 der, sometimes uttering a loud cry, or a lively 

 chattering, and again going about in perfect 

 silence. 



The galagos are pretty little creatures with 

 woolly fur and very long bushy tails, and they 

 are four-handed. They have great staring eyes, 

 as night-loving creatures are apt to have, and 

 their ears are curious, very large, and capable 

 of being folded or drawn down so as to be 

 almost closed, — a convenient arrangement for 

 fellows who want to sleep all day. Some of 

 them have been kept as pets, and others in 

 museums, and they are very entertaining. 



The island of Madagascar contributes to the 

 ball-making beasts one of the strangest animals 

 in the world, the aye-aye. He is also of the 

 Lemur family, and so shy and solitary in his 

 habits that even the natives of the country are 

 not familiar with him. 



All day long, when other animals and men 

 are wide awake, he sleeps rolled into a ball 



