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The aye-aye, a nocturnal lemur with a distinctively long middle finger, is the stuff of legends in its native Madagascar. Eugen Haag/Adobe Stock Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.

In Kali’s defense, aye-aye fingers were made for picking. The primate’s hand makes up 41% of its forelimb (imagine an average-size human with a foot-long hand).

And no animal embodies the quirky brilliance of adaptation quite like the Aye Aye. As you'll see in the video, with his ...

An aye-aye is about as big as a house cat, but its clawed middle finger is some 8 centimeters long. And Kali was plunging almost the entire digit up her snout to sample her own snot with dainty licks.

To find the answer, the researchers took a CT scan of an aye-aye specimen from a museum and then modeled the head and hand on a computer, according to Defector.The model showed the finger “going ...

New research shows that a type of primate known as an aye-aye loves picking its nose. Researchers say the findings raise interesting questions about why nose-picking is such a common behavior.

The aye-aye is the newest member of an exclusive club: animals that pick their nose. The primates from Madagascar have been recorded for the first time inserting their eight-centimetre-long finger ...

Aye-ayes use their long middle finger to pick their nose, a first for this lemur species. But scientists aren’t sure why these animals picked up the habit. Skip to main content.

The Aye-Aye's middle finger is quite large and more or less compared to that of a gnarled, bony twig. IPL 2025 Mega Auction. IPL Auction 2025: Who got whom; ...

The aye-aye, a nocturnal lemur with a distinctively long middle finger, is the stuff of legends in its native Madagascar. Eugen Haag/Adobe Stock Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.

Including aye-ayes and humans, 12 species of primate have been observed snacking on snot. Unlike humans' relatively short digits, the aye-aye's long and skinny middle finger is perfectly shaped ...