4/22/2005: Baby aye-aye
 

http://cellar.org/2005/ayeaye.jpg

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:

http://cellar.org/2005/tarsier.jpg

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.

http://cellar.org/2005/ayeaye2.jpg

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.

I 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.

hey, isn't the thing in the first photo from Lord of the Rings?

Yeah, I'm not sure I even need to photoshop that to turn it into a fictional creature...

Isn'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.

Or consider the factor that they look like they fell out of the ugly tree and hit EVERY branch on the way down.

I ain't touching this'n...
:blush:

This unfortunate critter should have been named "uh-uh", not aye-aye.

It's properly named, just misspelled.

yeah, shoulda been "ay-yai-yai-yai-YAI!"

It looks like my firstborn. I think it's cute, ya'all.

(reason #1 for not having Beltane Babies...)

Aw, who doesn't know the tarsier? It's on the cover of O'Reilly's UNIX book.

^^-- Eh, beaten.

It's Scott Farkus! (He had yellow eyes! So, help me, God! Yellow eyes!)

It looks like a Firey to me.

I think it's dobby from HP.

Thanks vsp, I didn't feel like ripping apart my bookshelf to check all the covers.

I 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.............

That second one is a Slow Lorris. The only venomous mammal, if you discount my ex...

Actually it's on two O'Reilly books: vi and UNIX.

Ahem... You forgot the Duck Billed Platypus.

That girl with the Firey's looks like porn star Kacey...

Please include links :lol:

That's Jennifer Connelly, who has made a very nice transition from teen actress to very successful adult (non-porn) hottie actress.

Quite 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.

Knock, knock, "There's a man at the door with a bill" "No it's not it's duck with a hat on.

I think it looks more like this:

http://www.jimcarreyonline.com/info/...arrey-olaf.jpg

Wake 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. :lol: