Phototrap Image 1: Mountain Dwarf Galago (<I>Galagoides orinus</I>), Unique to Eastern Arc Mountain (IMAGE)

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Phototrap Image 1: Mountain Dwarf Galago (<I>Galagoides orinus</I>), Unique to Eastern Arc Mountain

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A Mountain dwarf bush baby (Galagoides orinus) -- a species unique to the Eastern Arc Mountain range in Tanzania -- photographed in the Rubehos Mountains by a camera trap as part of a new study. The study found over 160 animal species in just one section of the Eastern Arc and observed destruction already underway making the area a conservation priority, according to World Wildlife Fund and the Tanzania Forest Conservation Group.

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Nike Doggart/Andrew Perkin, TFCG

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