Posted on 09/13/2018 6:25:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Aye-ayes (Daubentonia madagascariensis) are native to Madagascar. No one knows precisely how many exist in the wild. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies the animals as endangered and estimates that more than half of their wild population has disappeared in the past three decades.
As adults, aye-ayes are about the size of possums. They use their spindly fingers to tap on the bark of trees, aiming to spook wood-boring insects inside the tree so that they'll move. When the aye-ayes hear the telltale scuttle of a potential meal, the predators chew holes into the bark and fish the insects out with their weirdly long middle fingers.
This rare nocturnal lemur is thriving after a rough first week in which zoo staff had to feed her via In the wild, aye-ayes start breeding at around 3 to 4 years of age, giving birth to singleton babies every two or three years, according to the IUCN. Newborn aye-ayes are tiny and helpless, weighing just a few ounces, according to the Denver Zoo. They nurse for around seven months but stay with their mothers for up to two years, huddling in ball-like nests tucked into tree branches for safety.
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Aye aye aye.
Aye, Aye, SIR!
I’m checking the Ugly Box.
Most newborn animals are not at all telegenic, the majority of human babies too,
though I would never say that to the parents.
ooooo nice!
Lemur - They are cute as adults too.
I think it’s just cute, not ugly.
Also, it seems to be useful, getting insects and worms.
A few years ago, several of us visited the Duke University Lemur Center in Durham NC...
At that time, I had a full white beard and white hair about three inches over my collar....
There was one enclosure with about 7-8 lemurs inside...They saw me and started following me along the enclosure...If I turned and went another way, they turned and followed me always looking me in the eyes...This went on for a good 6 minutes...
I really felt kinda strange after this...LOL
Good luck little guy.
Big eyes, I keep falling’ for those big eyes...
Did you finish your homework, son?
“No one knows precisely how many exist in the wild.“
Okay.
“and estimates that more than half of their wild population has disappeared in the past three decades.”
How in the hell can they estimate half of them are gone when they had no frigging idea how many of them existed in the first place?
L
They like to bite is what I hear.
They just liked you and wanted to be friends. :)
Most animals, lemurs included are smarter than most people realize.
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