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.