 Some say that the appearance of an aye-aye in a village predicts the death of a villager, and the only way to prevent this is to kill it.The Sakalava people go so far as to claim aye-ayes sneak into houses through the thatched roofs and murder the sleeping occupants by using their middle finger to puncture the victim's aorta.The conservation of this species has been aided by captive breeding, primarily at the Duke Lemur Center in Durham, North Carolina.