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COLUGO, or COBEGO

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 737 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CLI-COM
COLUGO, or COBEGO , either of two
species
  of the zoological genus
Galeopithecus
 . These animals live in the forests of the Malay Peninsula,
Sumatra
 , Borneo and the Philippine Islands, where they feed chiefly on leaves, and probably also on
insects
 . In
size
  they may be compared with
cats
 ; the
long
  slender limbs are connected by a broad fold of skin extending outwards from the sides of the neck and
body
 , the fingers and toes are webbed, and the hind-limbs joined by an outer membrane as in bats. Their habits are nocturnal, and during the daytime they cling to the trunks or limbs of trees head downwards in a state of repose. With the approach of night their season of activity commences, when they may be occasionally seen gliding from tree to tree supported on their cutaneous parachute, and they have been noticed as capable of traversing in this way a space of 70 yds. with a descent of only about one in five. Europeans in the
East
  know these animals as " flying lemurs." (See


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