Although it weighs only 4 pounds in the wild, small animals is seen as a harbinger of death by local communities in Madagascar. This beast can penetrate the human heart during sleep.
Madagascar is the only place on earth where the animals can be found in the wild. According to legend, the aye-aye which has dark eyes, long fingers and looks disgusting, is expected to slip to the nearest village and use the middle finger to penetrate the human heart during sleep.
In fact the animal using the middle finger to find and harvest insect larvae in the trees. It was done at night, tapping a finger into the branches of a tree to listen to the holes in the wood to look for grubs.
Superstitions around the aye-aye is not afraid to evolve as human beings. In fact, he would walk to the pedestrian for a closer look. The combination of the attack and the fact habitat loss makes Aye-aye listed as "near threatened" in the IUCN Red List.
Aye-aye is one of the most unique creatures that can be found in nature. This unusual animals not only have its own genus (Daubentonia), but also his own family (Daubentoniidae). Longstanding debate on how to classify animals that want to know is whether rodents or primates.
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