What is Aye-aye?
{{taxobox | name = Aye-aye | status = NT | status_system = iucn3.1 | image = Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis).jpg | image_caption = An aye-aye eating banana flowers | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | classis = [[Mammal]]ia | ordo = [[Primate]]s | subordo = [[Strepsirrhini]] | infraordo = [[Lemuriformes]] | superfamilis = [[Lemuroidea]] | familia = '''Daubentoniidae''' | familia_authority = [[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1863 | genus = '''''Daubentonia''''' | genus_authority = [[Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire|É. Geoffroy]], 1795 | binomial = ''Daubentonia madagascariensis''}} The '''aye-aye''' (''Daubentonia madagascariensis'') is a [[lemur]] which lives in [[rain forests]] of [[Madagascar]], a large island off the southeast coast of [[Africa]].(madagascar). Also, the aye-aye is a small animal. This solitary animal is [[nocturnal]] (most active at night). The aye-aye spends most of its time in [[tree]]s. During the day, it sleeps in a nest in the fork of a tree. It builds the nest out of leaves and twigs. The aye-aye has [[rodent]]-like teeth and a special thin middle finger to get at the insect [[larva|grubs]] under tree bark. It fills the same [[ecological niche]] as [[woodpeckers]] do elsewhere. It taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the wood using its forward slanting incisors. Then it sticks in its middle finger to pull the grubs out.<ref>Erickson C.J. ''et al'' 1998. Percussive foraging: stimuli for prey location by aye-ayes (Daubentonia madagascariensis). ''International Journal of Primatology'' '''19''' (1): 111. [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1020363128240]</ref> Lemurs are [[primate]]s, and so are related to [[monkey]]s, [[ape]]s, and [[people|me]] == References == {{reflist}} {{wikispecies|Daubentonia madagascariensis}} [[category:Lemuriformes]] [[Category:Mammals of Africa]]