Daughter of the Female Gendered Feline Hivemind Thread
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Kemrain said:
The "what the hell is that thing?" debate took place several threads ago. I thank Turanil for making the pic into an avatar for me.
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DungeonmasterCal said:
*** The aye-aye is the largest nocturnal primate in the world.
*** The aye-aye displays an unusual degree of fearlessness towards humans. Wild aye-ayes have been known to stroll nonchalantly down a village street in Madagascar or appear unexpectedly from nowhere in the rainforest to sniff a researcher's shoes.
*** In some parts of Madagascar, the aye-aye is regarded as a harbinger of evil and killed on sight (The Sakalava believe that the aye-aye enters houses during the night through thatched roofs and murders the sleeping human occupants. It supposedly uses its elongated finger to cut the aortic vein of its victims). In other parts of Madagascar the aye-aye is considered to be a good omen.
*** The aye-aye is different from the other lemurs because it is highly specialized in many ways; among them are its unique dental formula (distinct from all other primates), its continuously growing incisor teeth (which led to its being considered a rodent during part of the 19th century), its large ears (almost certainly used in locating insect larvae in dead wood), and its long skeleton-like middle finger used to extract larvae from holes. So unique is it among the lemurs that it has proven extremely difficult to determine which other lemurs are its closest relatives. The aye-aye is so unusual that it is not only strange within the context of the primates, it is one of the most distinctive mammals on earth.
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Woot! All bow before the majesty of the aye-aye!
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I don't think we have any Magagascarian (????) EnWorlders, though I could be wrong. So the aye-aye is safe!
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