The Bizarre Aye-Aye Isn’t Giving Us the Finger After All
The Bizarre Aye-Aye Isn’t Giving Us the Finger After All
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
October 23, 20195m 6s
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Show Notes
If it seems too good to be true, the old cliché goes, it probably is. And it doesn’t get much gooder than the bizarre hand of the aye-aye, a specialized lemur that uses a hyper-elongated middle finger to tap along hollow tree branches, listens for grubs within, gnaws a hole in the wood, and reaches that middle finger inside to fish out the food.
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