4/22/2005: Baby aye-aye

Undertoad · 04-22-2005, 11:19 AM

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 · 04-22-2005, 11:47 AM

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.

lookout123 · 04-22-2005, 12:08 PM

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

Happy Monkey · 04-22-2005, 12:46 PM

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

jaguar · 04-22-2005, 12:55 PM

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.

BigV · 04-22-2005, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

--snip--
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.

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

I ain't touching this'n...

Elspode · 04-22-2005, 01:07 PM

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

wolf · 04-22-2005, 01:13 PM

It's properly named, just misspelled.

BigV · 04-22-2005, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf

It's properly named, just misspelled.

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

Trilby · 04-22-2005, 02:27 PM

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

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

vsp · 04-22-2005, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Interestingly, someone else (don't have a note) recently sent a tarsier, another nighttime primate:

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

^^-- Eh, beaten.

Happy Monkey · 04-22-2005, 02:43 PM

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

Clodfobble · 04-22-2005, 03:33 PM

It looks like a Firey to me.

dar512 · 04-22-2005, 04:58 PM

I think it's dobby from HP.

jaguar · 04-22-2005, 07:02 PM

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

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04-22-2005, 12:46 PM	#4
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04-22-2005, 12:55 PM	#5
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04-22-2005, 01:07 PM	#7
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	This unfortunate critter should have been named "uh-uh", not aye-aye. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

04-22-2005, 01:13 PM	#8
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04-22-2005, 11:19 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	4/22/2005: 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.

04-22-2005, 11:47 AM	#2
Cochese Disorderly Orderly Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 54	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.

04-22-2005, 02:27 PM	#10
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	It looks like my firstborn. I think it's cute, ya'all. (reason #1 for not having Beltane Babies...) __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

04-22-2005, 02:43 PM	#12
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	It's Scott Farkus! (He had yellow eyes! So, help me, God! Yellow eyes!) __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

04-22-2005, 03:33 PM	#13
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	It looks like a Firey to me. Attached Images

04-22-2005, 04:58 PM	#14
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	I think it's dobby from HP. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

04-22-2005, 07:02 PM	#15
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