HABITAT

• Madagascar is the only place that the aye-aye live.
• The aye-ayes nickname is king of the treetops.
• An aye-aye can adapt to any habitat very, very fast.
• In Madagascar, aye-ayes are considered bad luck.
• An aye-aye will create more then five nests in it's territory at a time.
• An aye-aye's tail is 2 times as large as its body.
• While the aye-aye is a type of lemur, it has claws like a sloth, a face like a weasel, a body like a monkey, and incisors like a rodent.
• An aye-aye's lifespan in the wild is unknown.
• Aye-ayes have their own territory.

APPEARANCE

• The aye-aye is the strangest looking primate.
• An aye-aye's tail can grow to be three feet long.
• Aye-ayes have huge ears that look like large cones on their head.
• Aye-ayes have a noticeably long middle finger that is three times as large as its other fingers.
• An aye-aye's tail is three times as long as it's body.
• The aye-aye is considered one of the most ugliest animals on earth.
• All aye-aye's have brown fluffy fur with only 5-6 white hairs.
• Aye-aye's eyes are always yellow and big.
• While the aye-aye is a type of lemur, it has eyes like a bush baby, a body like a monkey, a face like a weasel, and incisors like a rodent.

BABY AYE-AYES

• A baby aye-aye is born with a white stripe down it's back.
• All baby aye-ayes are born hairless.
• A baby will stay with it's mother for two whole years before even starting to grow away from her.
• Baby aye-ayes are born hairless.
• For the first seven months of it's youth, the baby will only drink milk.
• Baby's are only five inches long at birth.

MATING AND GIVING BIRTH

• Males will kill each other to get females.
• A female only gives birth to only 1 baby every two to three years.
• The males never help to take care of the young.
• A female aye-aye will only give birth to 8 baby's in its entire lifetime.
• The aye-aye does not have a specific time to mate, it can reproduce throughout the whole year.

DIET

• An aye-aye can hear any prey fifty football feilds away.
• An aye-aye is nocturnal, so the aye-aye is very, very good at stealing bird eggs.
• An aye-aye can tap it's finger on a branch to hear and see if there is any bugs in that branch.
• Aye-ayes have been known to love sugar cane.

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THE AYE-AYE