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A specialized long, thin, middle finger allows the aye-aye to insert its narrow middle finger to pull grubs out which it has found by tapping on outside of trees. The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth and a special 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 using its forward slanting incisors to create a small hole in which it inserts its narrow middle finger to pull the grubs out. From an ecological point of view the aye-aye fills the niche of a woodpecker, as it is capable penetrating wood to extract the invertebrates within.
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probiesays...I heard Stephen Fry describe these on QI so I knew there middle finger was long. But I had no idea how pencil thin it was. Amazing evolution in action.
chingalerasays...Madagascar used to have such rich flora and fauna before it was burned for charcoal.
Thanks to ALL and curses for eternity to the cocksuckers who made Africa what it is today...the poster child of Douchebag European Colonial Rape.
Now it's China's turn for shitting on it at a breakneck pace.
Dear God: Fuck China, too.
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