The Origins of Chimhavira

 

 

"Chimhavira can also be spelled Chinhavira and is the shona name for the Lesser Bushbaby"

 

 

Chimhavira is the Shona (Shona is a native language of Zimbabwe and southern Zambia) name for the African Lesser Bushbaby (Galago crassicaudatus). 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.

 

They are probably the most numerous primate in Africa, and can be found in every large forest on the continent. They mark their territory by urinating on their hands and leaving traces on the trees they climb across, and they follow these detectable paths through the trees night after night.

 

 

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