Aye-aye
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/tag/3669
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- "The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a long-fingered lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar with rodent-like teeth that perpetually grow and a special thin middle finger.
It is the world´s largest nocturnal primate. It 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 into which it inserts its narrow middle finger to pull the grubs out. This foraging method is called percussive foraging, and takes up 5–41% of foraging time. The only other animal species known to find food in this way is the striped possum. From an ecological point of view, the aye-aye fills the niche of a woodpecker, as it is capable of penetrating wood to extract the invertebrates within." - (en.wikipedia.org 19.03.2022)
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Halbaffe Aye-Aye
Das nachtaktive Fingertier...
Object information
Image: Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold - CC BY-NC-SA
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