Hæmoglobins of Galago crassicaudatus

Abstract

Galago crassicaudatus is a nocturnal, arboreal prosimian Primate of relatively wide distribution in Africa. Recently we have examined hsemoglobin from 19 individuals of this species. All the animals came from the Sokoke forest, two to three miles west of the town of Gedi in south-eastern Kenya. The pelage colours of the 19. animals, all from the same population, spanned the characteristic shades and markings of the subspecies G. c. agisymbanus, G. c. lasiotis, G. c. panganiensis, G. c. kikuyuensis, G. c. crassicaudatus and G. c. argentatus¹. The last-named variety, however, has characters other than the superficial ones of pelage markings and colour which make a distinction between it and the other five useful for the present. Our long-standing suspicion that the sub-species, other than the argentatus, are merely normal colour variations within G. crassicaudatus seems to be confirmed.