Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis)

[guppiecat]

Aye-ayes use their long finger to tap around tree trunks to find holes and then dig grubs out.

Apparently they also eat corn.

Who knew?

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

Comments

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Wow, how on earth did you get that photo?

[guppiecat]

I went into the enclosure. :)

(With a zookeeper, of course.)

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

That isn't a processed shot taken in the dark, is it?

[guppiecat]

Not the sort of dark that the Denver Zoo had for their aye-ayes, no. It was dark though.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you. I was troubled at the idea of a aye-aye thrust into the daylight. But the aye-aye looks comfortable! But that photo doesn't look tremendously processed! But...

[silkensteel.livejournal.com]

Do aye-ayes ever pick their nose-nose? If so, which finger do they use?

[guppiecat]

They use the short fingers to pick their nose.

They use the long finger to pick your brain. ;)