A baby aye-aye which was born at Denver zoo, weighing just 82 grams. The aye-aye is an endangered species in its native Madagascar
Picture: WENN
(via telegraph.co.uk)
The Aye-aye 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 unusual 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. The only other animals known to find food in this way is the Striped Possum. text via wikipedia.
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