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  1.  A Finger-Licking Lemur
    A Finger-Licking Lemur
    The aye-aye is a unique primate that lives only in Madagascar. It is the world's largest nocturnal primate and has a distinctive method of finding food.
    Etymology

    The genus Daubentonia was named after the French naturalist Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton by his student, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, in 1795. Initially, Geoffroy considered using the Greek name Scolecoph… See more

    Evolutionary history and taxonomy

    Due to its derived morphological features, the classification of the aye-aye was debated following its discovery. The possession of continually growing incisors (front teeth) parallels those of rodents, leading early naturalists t… See more

    Anatomy and morphology

    A full-grown aye-aye is typically about 60 centimetres (2 feet) long with a tail longer than its body. The species has an average head and body length of 36–43 cm (14–17 in) plus a tail of 56–61 cm (22–24 in), and weighs aro… See more

    Behaviour and lifestyle

    The aye-aye is a nocturnal and arboreal animal meaning that it spends most of its life high in the trees. Although they are known to come down to the ground on occasion, aye-ayes sleep, eat, travel and mate in th… See more

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