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Definition of Galagos
1. galago [n] - See also: galago
Lexicographical Neighbors of Galagos
Literary usage of Galagos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Apingi Kingdom: With Life in the Great Sahara, and Sketches of the Chase by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1871)
"TWO BABY galagos. afternoon, after thinking over all these things, I went all
alone into the forest, for I was tired of the noise of the people, ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1827)
"The galagos (according to Adanson) have much of the manners of monkeys and squirrels.
They are in general gentle, perch constantly on the branches of trees, ..."
3. Liberia by Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf (1906)
"The galagos as a sub-family have a remarkable feature in their skeleton which
reappears in that aberrant long-limbed Asiatic lemur, the tarsier : this is ..."
4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1859)
"They (the galagos) have the teeth of a hedgehog (that is, ... To join the galagos
to the Insectivora. therefore, does not shock me more than to remove the ..."
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