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A Thick-tailed Bush-baby was saved from almost certain death from a mob of people in a Hoedspruit taxi rank.
This furry little animal sometimes knownas a Greater Galago(
Otolemur crassicaudatus)
 
is nocturnaland spends most of its time in trees.Their call, hence the name, is a baby-like wail and is one of the distinctivenight time calls in the bush.The animal was spotted in a Monkey-thorn tree overlooking a taxi rank. Theonlookers apparently believed thatseeing this animal was a bad omenbased on their superstitious beliefs or itwas simply to be killed for mutipurposes, food or an equally senselessreason.A resident, who witnessed the incident,where people were trying to shoot thebush-baby with a catapult, phoned thelocal paper who in turn phonedMoholoholo, the animal rehabilitationcentre. They in turn phoned Protrackwho were in closer proximity to theincident.Alex Volker along with three teammembers rushed to the site to find thecreature high up in a Monkey-thorn treeand a crowd of about thirty people
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