bush baby: it's what's for dinner

As I've said before, I eat with my family rather often. And usually we eat pretty normal things like cabbage, eggs, or some other vegetable. But the other night, we had some sort of mystery meat. Bamayo told me what it was in Bemba, and of course I didn't understand, but asked her son to translate. He told me that we were eating "bush baby." At the time, I just went on and ate it. It was really good. The meat was tender, and took well to the way that Zambians cook the heck out of everything.

Later, though, I decided to do some research. They're really cute!! Bush babies, also called "galagos," look like a crazy cross between a squirrel and a lemur. They're nocturnal primates with ears similar to bats.' Their primary food source is insects, and they are master jumpers. They jump better than frogs, leaping from to tree to tree in the African bush.

After seeing some pictures of them, I realized that I've seen them before. My family has eaten them on nights that I haven't partaken. And then I made some connections. My little brothers, Savior and Licha, often walk around with slingshots around their necks, especially later in the day. And after I lock up my house to go to bed, I always hear kids screaming. So I'm pretty sure that the kids run around the trees hunting bush babies at night. And I ate some cute little primates. Here's the wikipedia link for anyone that's interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galago