CuriousAnimals » lemurs http://curiousanimals.net Animals kingdom opens for you Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:12:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Aye-Aye madagascar lemur http://curiousanimals.net/animals/aye-aye-madagascar-lemur/ http://curiousanimals.net/animals/aye-aye-madagascar-lemur/#comments Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:24:37 +0000 Ksena http://curiousanimals.net/animals/aye-aye-madagascar-lemur/ All of us know that historically & geographically Madagascar was separated from other land and it was a cause of variety biological species appearing. Probably the most peculiar madagascar’s animal is Aye-Aye lemur. Some peoples, looking on Aye-Aye’s pictures say & think that it was made in Photoshop program These lemurs are really unbelievably strange!

Aye-aye

Definitely alien

This highly mysterious creature has shaggy black fur, large bat-like ears and huge buckteeth.

small sized Lemur 

Scared eyes

They have big, wide opened eyes and long thin, delicate fingers and their diet includes insects, fruits, nuts, nectar, seeds. Night is their activity period, but all of the day they spend sleeping in the nest, constructed in a tree from interwoven twigs and dead leaves.
Because of Aye-Aye’s unnatractive appearance and human’s superstitious beliefs, lemurs were killed often by some native people. And in fact, some tribes will abandon their village if aye-aye is seen passing through… 

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