Aye-aye
Daubentonia madagascariensis
Classification
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Primates
- Family
- Daubentoniidae
L'aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) est une espèce de primate strepsirrhinien qui vit à Madagascar. C'est la seule espèce du genre Daubentonia, lui-même seul membre de la famille des daubentonidés. Elle est considérée comme vulnérable à l'extinction selon l'Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature (UICN).
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 that they can use to catch grubs and larvae out of tree trunks. It is the world's largest nocturnal primate. It is characterized by its unusual method of finding food: It taps on trees and listens for echoes that signal hollows inside them, which are often infested by grubs, then gnaws holes into the wood using its forward-slanting incisors to create a small hole into which it inserts its narrow middle…
El aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) es una especie de primate estrepsirrino de la familia Daubentoniidae endémico de la isla de Madagascar, emparentado con los lémures. Su estrafalaria apariencia hace que se le considere el principal responsable del origen de la palabra «lémur», que significa en latín «espíritu nocturno». El aye-aye es el único representante vivo de su género (Daubentonia), familia (Daubentonidae) e infraorden (Chiromyiformes), lo que deja bien a las claras su extrema rareza.
Distribution
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