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Galagoides demidoff (Demidoff's galago)

Synonyms: Galago demidoff; Galago demidovii; Galagoides demidovii; Galagoides demidovii pusillus

Wikipedia Abstract

Prince Demidoff's bushbaby (Galagoides demidovii), also known as Prince Demidoff's galago, is a species of primate in the Galagidae Family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, possibly Kenya, and possibly Malawi.
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Infraspecies

Galagoides demidoff anomurus (Congo Dwarf Galago)
Galagoides demidoff demidoff (Demidoff's Dwarf Galago)
Galagoides demidoff medius (Uele Dwarf Galago)
Galagoides demidoff murinus (Calabar Dwarf Galago)
Galagoides demidoff phasma (Kasai Dwarf Galago)
Galagoides demidoff poensis (Bioko Dwarf Galago)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  60 grams
Birth Weight [1]  8 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  80 %
Diet - Nectar [2]  10 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  8 months 16 days
Male Maturity [1]  9 months
Gestation [1]  3 months 21 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  13 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  6 inches (14 cm)
Weaning [1]  50 days

Protected Areas

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Lemurphthirus galagus[4]
Lemurphthirus stigmosus[5]
Lemurphthirus vincenti[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Nunn, C. L., and S. Altizer. 2005. The Global Mammal Parasite Database: An Online Resource for Infectious Disease Records in Wild Primates. Evolutionary Anthroplogy 14:1-2.
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0