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Just caught this creature in the bush. Please who can identify this animal.

Some sort of tailless galago aka bush baby?

Why did you catch it though?

holocron:
Just caught this creature in the bush. Please who can identify this animal.

That's a slow loris.... It can be poisonous o... It has poisons that's secreted around its elbow that it picks with its mouth and injects it into your body when it bites. .. be very careful. You can still check it out online shaa.

WoundedLamb:
Some sort of tailless galago aka bush baby?

Why did you catch it though?

That's not galago... Galago is much smaller than that.... Almost like a squirrel.

Gozzzy:
That's not galago... Galago is much smaller than that.... Almost like a squirrel.

OK. I was thinking perhaps the camera was brought so close, that's why it seemed large.

you didn't catch it, it caught you.

Gozzzy:
That's a slow loris.... It can be poisonous o... It has poisons that's secreted around its elbow that it picks with its mouth and injects it into your body when it bites. .. be very careful. You can still check it out online shaa.

Good one. Thanks. From Wikipedia, the slow Loris is not supposed to be endemic to West Africa, so this is a rare find!