This information was posted on the blog two doors down from mine on Blogger. (You've gotta love the picture... this is one unusual-looking dude!) I've got to ask the SoHills' contingent of Malagasy students if they could get someone back home to send me an Aye-aye.Here's all you ever wanted to know about this little creature called the Aye-aye:
The Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a strepsirrhine native to Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth with a long, thin middle finger to fill the same ecological niche as a woodpecker.
It is the world's largest nocturnal primate, and is characterized by its unique method of finding food; it taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the wood and inserts its elongated middle finger to pull the grubs out.
