{"id":9681,"date":"2020-05-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/thick-tailed-bush-baby\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T09:59:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T07:59:55","slug":"thick-tailed-bush-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/kruger-national-park-news\/kruger-national-park-animals-guide\/thick-tailed-bush-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Thick Tailed Bush Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Name<\/h2>\n<p>Thick-tailed Bushbaby<\/p>\n<h2>Appearance<\/h2>\n<p>The Thick-tailed Bushbaby is a nocturnal primate with a thick coat and large ears. The Thick-tailed Bushbaby has a brown coat that slowly fades to its white underside. The Fingers of the Bushbaby are nimble and have a thick skin on its finger tips to provide extra grip while climbing trees. The Bushbaby has large eyes and an iconic thick bushy tail.<\/p>\n<h2>Diet<\/h2>\n<p>Groups of these Bushbabies disperse at dusk to forage for insects. They can also gather around gum licks and fruiting trees.<\/p>\n<h2>Breeding<\/h2>\n<p>The Thick-tailed Bushbaby has a gestation period of about 132 days and gives birth to up to 4 young. Little is known about the breeding habits of the Thick-tailed Bushbaby.<\/p>\n<h2>Behaviour<\/h2>\n<p>These animals love sleeping and regularly form sleeping groups with the females and young.<\/p>\n<h2>Habitats<\/h2>\n<p>The Thick-tailed Bushbaby prefers open woodland and savannah areas in Northeastern South Africa, though riverine areas and coastal forests provide the best suitable habitat.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name Thick-tailed Bushbaby Appearance The Thick-tailed Bushbaby is a nocturnal primate with a thick coat and large ears. The Thick-tailed Bushbaby has a brown coat that slowly fades to its white underside. The Fingers of the Bushbaby are nimble and have a thick skin on its finger tips to provide extra grip while climbing trees. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kruger-animal-tour-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}