A small nocturnal primate of sub-Saharan Africa. It has large ears and searches for food in trees.
Back fur ranges from silvery gray to brown, with a paler underside. The large ears can be folded and moved.
At Fathala Wildlife Reserve in Senegal, researchers used an automatic recorder to monitor loud calls from Senegal galagos over 16 nights in May 2014. They compared the recordings in half-hour intervals. Of the 234 calls recorded, rates rose especially from 4:30 to 5:00 a.m. and from 5:30 to 6:00 a.m.
No similar increase appeared at dusk, and calls occurred irregularly through the rest of the night. The first rise came earlier than the animals’ return to sleeping sites and could not be explained by changing light. The researchers suggest an internal cue may be involved, but the reason for calling remains unresolved.
IUCN Red List · Least Concern (LC) · Global
The IUCN global assessment published in 2019 lists the Senegal galago as Least Concern (LC), while reporting a decreasing population trend. It is locally common across its wide range, but local declines are linked to habitat loss, including woodland and forest clearance and conversion to agriculture. The assessment reports no major threat causing a range-wide population decline.