What is the hyphenated name of the lemur, Daubentonia madagascariensis, the world’s largest nocturnal primate?
Aye-aye also revolutionized the understanding of the aye-aye diet. Aye-aye The aye-aye ("Daubentonia madagascariensis") is a lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth that perpetually grow and a special thin middle finger. It is the world's largest nocturnal primate, and is characterized by its unusual method of finding food: it taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the wood using its forward slanting incisors to create a small hole in which it inserts its narrow middle finger to pull the grubs out. This foraging method is called "percussive foraging", and takes up 5–41% of
Pygmy mouse lemur night Pygmy mouse lemur Pygmy mouse lemur (Microcebus myoxinus), also known as Peters' mouse lemur or dormouse lemur, is a primate weighing only ; it is the second smallest of the mouse lemurs. Its dorsal side is a rufous-brown colour, and creamy-white ventrally. It lives in dry deciduous forests. The pygmy mouse lemur measures around (head-body length). Its small size and nocturnal nature made it difficult to locate for over a century, and was rediscovered in the Kirindy forest in western Madagascar in 1993. They are believed to inhabit other parts of the island, but so far have only been