“The thing about a bush baby is that the male establishes its territory by peeing on his hands and putting it all on the walls. And after you've had a pair for about six months, you can see people coming into the house, sniffing and going: ‘Now, that’s definitely not mulligatawny soup.”

— David Attenborough

Interview in Metro 29 Jan 2013

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British broadcaster and naturalist 1926

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