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.

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.

Undertoad wrote:

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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.

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

Undertoad wrote:

The aye-aye has a ring finger twice as long as its other fingers. --snip

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.

wolf wrote:

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...)

Undertoad wrote:

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.

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...

vsp wrote:

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

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

LCanal wrote:

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

Ahem... You forgot the Duck Billed Platypus.

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

Brianna wrote:

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:

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: