bellenornor:
Why did u kill it?

I'll like to be ur friend. Do you mind?

I wonder why people call this animal sloth, koala, puma, polar bear, pander etc. All these animals are not found in Africa. These animal is really strange. I know it is a nocturnal and a tree climbing animals. I think I agree with a guy that came with the name Potto.

I think we can ask our ex presido who is a zoologist oga GEJ to tell us the name of the animal. The animal is really strange oooo

This is kungfu-panda..

adanny01:
I have watched alot of National Geographic wild but cant figure what it is.

I can only say for sure its a tree dweller.

Modified

EUREKA!!!

I have been searching and finally got it.

Its called a Potto.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potto

Following you now. You are smart.
The fact you could deduce that it was a tree dweller, shows how you think. Pleasure meeting you sir

Same as this??

https://www.nairaland.com/3416290/what-nigerian-bush-baby-animal

zykson:
Did try catching it alive but scared the hell outta me

It scared the hell outta u but u had the courage to kill it. that is foolish bravery! y not just let the creature be!!!

It looks like a kaola to me(bush baby)

I thought you said you killed it on a university ground? Where else can you find out what it is other than a citadel of learning like unidentified? And you are probably an undergraduate or even a lecturer.

Teacher teach me nonsense. That looks like an endangered specie in a land where record keeping,scientific observations,conservation,are obsolete.

If threatened, the potto will hide its face and neck-butt its opponent, making use of its unusual vertebrae. It can also deliver a powerful bite. Its saliva contains compounds that cause the wound to become inflamed]

I can't be the only one disturbed by the fact that you killed this thing out of curiosity, am I?
If you were simply interested in the name and mannerism why didn't you take a picture or two or three and observe it's behaviour? I hope at the very least you plan consuming it. It's bad to go killing things weaker than you simply because you can. Wiki says it's biggest predators are humans who hunt for bush meat.

So @quote, OP did it attack?


Special thanks to @adanny01 for the research.

arrr ... looks more of a family of bear .. but sure is a tree dweller which could be ranging from koala,racoon,maybe a baby bear .. to tbosecalling it a potto ..there's a difference tw tbose two the one the op posted has claws and potto or whatevwr doesnt have any .. so i'd go for sloth or koala .. could be this species that is resistant to snake poison and scorpion's too

This is a bad kill. It makes no sense.

It's not a predatory animal at all and could have been left alone. And I bet you were not hungry.

jacksonlows:
Same as this??

https://www.nairaland.com/3416290/what-nigerian-bush-baby-animal

I think it is the same animal

That's potto. A very rare and harmless endangered specie. Too bad.

zykson:
I just killed this animal in Uniben.please can someone help me with the name

its a potto

valx2:
That's potto. A very rare and harmless endangered specie. Too bad.

Yea tz Potto

damanjohn:


That's puma or panda

Panda kwa, kunfu panda ni! In your imagination, Nigeria is now china ba?

It's probably a koala or a relative of it.

according to wikipedia..

The potto moves slowly and carefully, always gripping a branch with at least two limbs. It is also quiet and avoids predators using cryptic movement...

so why you chose to kill something that, naturally, would try its best to avoid you ..is baffling. @zykson

BoboYekini:
That's a sloth. Oga you should be ashamed of yourself.
You better eat it. Abi you wan make e rotten waste again? Agbaya.

that is not a sloth ! sloths look better than that.

Puma Puma

Somebody killed potto!

[quote author=zykson post=54310796] Wasnt wit a mobile phone when i saw it and did try catching it alive but couldnt...just curious abt it cos avnt seen such animal before [/quote

I hope you don't get angry when higher beings kill you.

bellenornor:
Why did u kill it?

He's an hungry man....see the floor of his room

It looks like a small bear..."sloth bear" I guess

BoboYekini:
That's a sloth. Oga you should be ashamed of yourself.
You better eat it. Abi you wan make e rotten waste again? Agbaya.

I think you are right about it being a SLOTH.

As for the rest, I am not so sure.

What made you decide that it doesn't have a Virus in it, that could exterminate us?

odegood:
I wonder why people call this animal sloth, koala, puma, polar bear, pander etc. All these animals are not found in Africa.

If there was a SLOTH living in Africa, there sure isn't NOW!

These animal is really strange. I know it is a nocturnal and a tree climbing animals. I think I agree with a guy that came with the name Potto.

I know that there are very many species of mammals which I have no idea what they are called.

Very s2upid man
That's how they destroy the remaining animals we av in that death trap of a country

It is called koala

zykson:
Wasnt wit a mobile phone when i saw it and did try catching it alive but couldnt...just curious abt it cos avnt seen such animal before

OPKE, you call yourself an undergraduate? You haven't seen it before, so to satisfy curiousity, you........KILLED IT!
shame on Nigerian future leaders. We are all together destroying Nigeria. Our leaders damage the economy the followers damage her wild life and eco system.