angwantibon.
/aŋˈ(ɡ)wantᵻbəʊ/, U.S. /æŋˈ(ɡ)wɑn(t)əˌboʊ/ Either of two small West African primates which have golden-yellow woolly fur, a long nose, and reduced second and third fingers, Arctocebus calabarensis (more fully Calabar angwantibo) and A. aureus (more fully golden angwantibo).These animals are in the same family ( Lorisidae) as the potto and are also called golden potto.
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1860 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 12 155 (heading) Notice of the Angwantibo of Old Calabar; an animal belonging apparently to the Genus Perodicticus of Bennet.
1863 Proc. Royal Physical Soc. Edinb. 1859–52 2 190 In the Angwantibo the hands and feet are small, round, and fleshy, with several large pads; in the Potto they are large, flat, and thin.
1953 G. M. Durrell Overloaded Ark ix. 163 I carefully tipped the Angwantibo out of the basket... He looked not unlike a teddy-bear.
1978 Sci. Amer. Feb. 42/2 The stout potto and the slenderer angwantibo never leap but climb with a silent, deliberate motion.
2015 J. Kingdon Kingdon Field Guide Afr. Mammals (ed. 2) 189 Normal census methods (walking through the forest with torches) are impossible for the Calabar Angwantibo because it hides its head and eyes at the least disturbance, depriving the observer of any clue to its presence.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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