Galagos, also known as bushbabies, bush babies or nagapies (meaning "little night monkeys" in Afrikaans), are small, nocturnal
primates native to continental Africa, and make up the family Galagidae (also sometimes called Galagonidae). They are sometimes
included as a subfamily within the Lorisidae or Loridae. According to some accounts, the name bush baby comes from either
the animal's cries or appearance.
Lorisidae (or sometimes Loridae) is a family of strepsirrhine primates. The lorids are all slim arboreal animals and include
the lorises, pottos and angwantibos. Lorids live in tropical, central Africa as well as in south and southeast Asia.
The Northern Greater Galago (Otolemur garnettii), also known as Garnett's Greater Galago, is a prosimian primate endemic to
Africa. A low-coverage genomic sequence of the Northern Greater Galago, was completed in 2006. As a 'primitive' primate, the
sequence is particularly useful in bridging the sequences of higher primates to close non-primates such as rodents.
