The+Greater+Bush+Babies

The greater bush baby is a small monkey like creature that lives in the woodlands and bush lands in Eastern and sub Saharan Africa and they are native to more than twenty-five African countries. They have wide green that glow in the dark, brown eyes, greyish brown fur, long ears and a long nose, sharp teeth, and they have human like hands.

There are four different sub species of bush babies but they are starting to becoming endangered because when hunters are out on their daily hunts, they get hungry and end up shooting the bush babies for food. Other predators that hunt the bush babies are eagles, owls, genets, and large snakes, but the bush babies are categorized as omnivores. Bush babies are very small animals. They weigh about 5-10 ounces and get to be as big as 7-8 inches, and their gestation period lasts for about four months. They live for about fourteen years in captivity, but they are starting to lose living space in the wild. For example, the increase of human population is causing more buildings to be built which leads to more settlements and also because people are building more roads which means they are cutting down trees which is the bush babies' habitat. Hopefully hunters will come to their senses and stop killing these animals for food and we should stop cutting down their habitat (trees). Bush babies are very interesting looking animals and hopefully we get to see one soon.