I was a monkey looking at a lemur.
September 1, 2019 2:45 PM Subscribe
Happy International Primate Day! Aye-Aye Conservation thinks that you should Know Your Primates (Twitter). What's an aye-aye, you ask? "[T]he Aye-aye is a very very peculiar animal. It looks like the agglomeration of all sorts of other different animals. So, for instance, it has a sort of foxy ears, and it has a little sort of bitty rabbit’s teeth, and it has a kind of ostrich feathered tail, and it has very weird eyes," according to Douglas Adams, who ventured to Madagascar (lecture transcript, embedded video) in search of these rare primates. True Facts about the aye-aye (YT); more facts, videos, and cute photos from the Duke Lemur Center.
My monkey toes salute you, my cousin with the long, thin middle fingers. Here's to Post Your Animal Month.
My monkey toes salute you, my cousin with the long, thin middle fingers. Here's to Post Your Animal Month.
long, thin middle fingers.
Boy howdy can they ever go to town on an egg using those:
Aye-ayes Ardrey and Elphaba - Eggs for Breakfast
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 3:22 PM on September 1, 2019 [2 favorites]
Boy howdy can they ever go to town on an egg using those:
Aye-ayes Ardrey and Elphaba - Eggs for Breakfast
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 3:22 PM on September 1, 2019 [2 favorites]
Repetition, with—Marianne Moore.
the scientist, should be
synonymous with accuracy.
The lemur-student can see
that an aye-aye is not
an angwan-tíbo, potto, or loris
posted by cyanistes at 2:54 AM on September 2, 2019 [1 favorite]
I learned about the aye-aye thanks to a documentary about lemurs that I saw more than 10 years ago. The documentary also informed me that John Cleese is obsessed with lemurs and there is a species named after him: Avahi cleesei.
posted by wicked_sassy at 9:44 AM on September 3, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by wicked_sassy at 9:44 AM on September 3, 2019 [1 favorite]
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Happy International Primate Day, MonkeyToes! My favorites (perhaps somewhat obviously) are the great apes; I love the calm, observational intelligence of orangutans, the stoic strength of gorillas, and the bone-all-day-every-day swinger's life of bonobos. Such a cool part of the evolutionary tree.
posted by youarenothere at 3:18 PM on September 1, 2019 [3 favorites]