Primarily natives of Madagascar, the Aye Aye look more like weird rodents, but are a type of lemur. They are sparsely scattered along the west coast and northwestern forests of Madagascar.
The only primate with ever-growing teeth, perhaps the most marked trait of the Aye aye is their really long, sharp and flexible middle finger which is three times bigger than the other fingers.It is also the only primate to use echolocation to find its prey.
They catch their food the same way as a woodpecker.They continuously tap on the branches in the trees with their long middle finger and listen closely with their bat-like ears (echolocation). They figure out where small grubs lie in the tunnels in the trees. They then bite through the wood with their sharp teeth and use their flexible middle finger to feel through the tunnel and then grab the grub and eat it.
The Aye-Aye is named after its cries.Its tail is longer than its body.
They are nocturnal, solitary creatures (it means that they spend most of their lives without others of the same species). They are with other primates of their species only for mating.
As they grow up, there will be some color changes in their body.They are arboreal which means that they spend most of their lives in the tree and rarely come to the ground.Aye-ayes have territories that are marked by their scent. Sometimes, a male territory can overlap another male territory.
Baby Aye-Ayes are known as ‘infants’
Aye-ayes are believed to be bad omens for their native residents who believed that it must be killed on sight to avoid bringing bad luck.In 1933, they were believed to be extinct.There used to be giant aye-ayes. It is an extinct form of the aye-aye. It used to weigh between 3 times to 5 times the amount of an average present Aye-aye.
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