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The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a long-fingered lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar with rodent-like teeth that perpetually grow [3] and a special thin middle finger that they can use to catch grubs and larvae out of tree trunks. It is the world's largest nocturnal primate. [4]
Daubentonia is the sole genus of the Daubentoniidae, a family of lemuroid primate native to much of Madagascar. The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is the only extant member. However, a second species known as the giant aye-aye (Daubentonia robusta) lived until recently, becoming extinct within the last 1000 years. [2]
The giant aye-aye (Daubentonia robusta) is an extinct relative of the aye-aye, the only other species in the genus Daubentonia. It lived in Madagascar , appears to have disappeared less than 1,000 years ago, is entirely unknown in life, and is only known from subfossil remains.
Researchers have, for the first time, recorded the aye-aye inserting a finger up its nostrils and then eating the mucus. Nose picking lemur 'could shed light on behaviour deemed improper in humans ...
Researchers recruited three primates – one slow loris and two aye-ayes – and gave them cups of sugar water with varying degrees of alcohol content. Primates like to get drunk, study suggests ...
Until Richard Owen published a definitive anatomical study in 1866, early naturalists were uncertain whether the aye-aye (genus Daubentonia) was a primate, rodent, or marsupial. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] [ 52 ] However, the placement of the aye-aye within the order Primates remained problematic until very recently.
This is a list of the native wild mammal species recorded in Madagascar.As of June 2014 (following the IUCN reassessment of the lemurs) there are 241 extant mammal species recognized in Madagascar, of which 22 are critically endangered, 62 are endangered, 32 are vulnerable, 9 are near threatened, 72 are of least concern and 44 are either data deficient or not evaluated.
A primate is a member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains lemurs, the aye-aye, lorisids, galagos, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes, with the last category including great apes. With the exception of humans, who inhabit every continent on Earth, most primates live in tropical or subtropical regions of the Americas, Africa and Asia.