Undertoad Friday Apr 22 12:19 PM4/22/2005: Baby aye-aye
Another item that has been on Yahoo Most Popular for a while until xoB found a better version on WaPo. What we have here is an "aye-aye", which is the largest nocturnal primate in the world. Kintana is its name (doesn't tell us male or female). After it grows up it will look a little more like a monkey.
Until then, it resides in your nightmares.
Interestingly, someone else (don't have a note) recently sent a tarsier, another nighttime primate:
We haven't seen a lot of images of these animals, because they are nocturnal - since they only come out at night, the world doesn't see them as often as they see other beasties. Their big eyes must be a factor in their night life.
The aye-aye has a ring finger twice as long as its other fingers. The larvae they prefer are found inside a small seed, so they use that digit to open the seed up and pull out the larvae goo. Good eats.
Cochese Friday Apr 22 12:47 PMI was in the emergency room last week for my ankle and saw a woman who had overdosed on something or other. She looked like this critter.
lookout123 Friday Apr 22 01:08 PMhey, isn't the thing in the first photo from Lord of the Rings?
Happy Monkey Friday Apr 22 01:46 PMYeah, I'm not sure I even need to photoshop that to turn it into a fictional creature...
jaguar Friday Apr 22 01:55 PMIsn't that second one the O'Reilly one? I buy so many of their books I got a free notepad (woo!) from their london sales dude and I'm sure it's the same creature.
BigV Friday Apr 22 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Undertoad
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We haven't seen a lot of images of these animals, because they are nocturnal - since they only come out at night, the world doesn't see them as often as they see other beasties. Their big eyes must be a factor in their night life.
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Or consider the factor that they look like they fell out of the ugly tree and hit EVERY branch on the way down.
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Originally Posted by Undertoad
The aye-aye has a ring finger twice as long as its other fingers. --snip
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I ain't touching this'n...
Elspode Friday Apr 22 02:07 PMThis unfortunate critter should have been named "uh-uh", not aye-aye.
wolf Friday Apr 22 02:13 PMIt's properly named, just misspelled.
BigV Friday Apr 22 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by wolf
It's properly named, just misspelled.
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yeah, shoulda been "ay-yai-yai-yai-YAI!"
Trilby Friday Apr 22 03:27 PMIt looks like my firstborn. I think it's cute, ya'all.
(reason #1 for not having Beltane Babies...)
vsp Friday Apr 22 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Undertoad
Interestingly, someone else (don't have a note) recently sent a tarsier, another nighttime primate:
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Aw, who doesn't know the tarsier? It's on the cover of O'Reilly's UNIX book.
^^-- Eh, beaten.
Happy Monkey Friday Apr 22 03:43 PMIt's Scott Farkus! (He had yellow eyes! So, help me, God! Yellow eyes!)
Clodfobble Friday Apr 22 04:33 PMIt looks like a Firey to me.
dar512 Friday Apr 22 05:58 PMI think it's dobby from HP.
jaguar Friday Apr 22 08:02 PMThanks vsp, I didn't feel like ripping apart my bookshelf to check all the covers.
capnhowdy Friday Apr 22 08:50 PMI bet these critters will bite like hell.
The guy holding him has a band-aid and the rest of his hand looks kinda rough.
I feel better now knowing I only have mice in my house.............
LCanal Friday Apr 22 10:54 PMThat second one is a Slow Lorris. The only venomous mammal, if you discount my ex...
floki Saturday Apr 23 02:59 AM
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Originally Posted by vsp
Aw, who doesn't know the tarsier? It's on the cover of O'Reilly's UNIX book.
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Actually it's on two O'Reilly books: vi and UNIX.
BigV Saturday Apr 23 05:13 AM
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Originally Posted by LCanal
That second one is a Slow Lorris. The only venomous mammal, if you discount my ex...
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Ahem... You forgot the Duck Billed Platypus.
Trilby Saturday Apr 23 08:13 AMThat girl with the Firey's looks like porn star Kacey...
busterb Saturday Apr 23 08:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Brianna
That girl with the Firey's looks like porn star Kacey...
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Please include links
Elspode Saturday Apr 23 09:46 PMThat's Jennifer Connelly, who has made a very nice transition from teen actress to very successful adult (non-porn) hottie actress.
LCanal Monday Apr 25 03:23 AMQuite correct. I watched a show once on a guy that picked one up, not nice. I beleive it's only the male but.....I've been wrong before.
LCanal Monday Apr 25 03:24 AMKnock, knock, "There's a man at the door with a bill" "No it's not it's duck with a hat on.
axlrosen Monday Apr 25 02:15 PMI think it looks more like this:
Degrees Tuesday Apr 26 10:09 AMWake up time!
Some mornings, the family cat climbs into bed, gets three inches from the face, and stares intently until we wake up.
If she looked like the aye-aye, I think we would never risk falling asleep.
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