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[SennaVille]

Aye-ayes are essentially lemur woodpeckers. They use their elongated middle fingers to tap on trees and pry off bark in order to find and get to grubs. Their diet also consists of nectar, seeds, fungus, and fruit.



Aye-ayes are known for their boldness. They seem to have little fear of man and will visit villages out of curiousity. Unfortunately, villagers are often superstitious of aye-ayes believing them to be a sign of death or even fearing aye-ayes will break into their homes and stick their long middle finger into their throat while they sleep at night. Aye-ayes are often killed on sight.

[scotty]

Poor old Gizmo, YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO GET HIM WET!!!

[What's Burning?]

Aye-ayes are essentially lemur woodpeckers. They use their elongated middle fingers to tap on trees and pry off bark in order to find and get to grubs. Their diet also consists of nectar, seeds, fungus, and fruit.



Aye-ayes are known for their boldness. They seem to have little fear of man and will visit villages out of curiousity. Unfortunately, villagers are often superstitious of aye-ayes believing them to be a sign of death or even fearing aye-ayes will break into their homes and stick their long middle finger into their throat while they sleep at night. Aye-ayes are often killed on sight.

That reminds me of that urban legend of someone going down to Mexico and buying what they thought was a chihuahua puppy.

[SennaVille]

That reminds me of that urban legend of someone going down to Mexico and buying what they thought was a chihuahua puppy.

Did the puppy stick it's long middle finger into their throat while they slept??

[SennaVille]

The Komondor dog.

The Komondor Dog aka Mr Mop, is infamous for it's tendency to suddenly dunk itself into soapy suds and then maniacally fling itself around floors resulting in shiny tiles.

Should you approach a Komondor dog? If you want shiny tiles...yes.

[Hammer278]

Hey that Gizmo thing looks pretty cool, could we keep it in a hamsterlarium?? I want one!

[Rivelution]

Poor old Gizmo, YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO GET HIM WET!!!

Or feed him after midnight

[darwin dali]

You left out the most interesting feature of the Aye-Aye (Daubentonia): its incisors (front teeth) grow permanently like in rodents and lagomorphs (rabbits, hares). It's the only primate species that has that feature and it has it of course because of its way of foraging.
Like most lemurs on Madagascar they are highly endangered - unfortunately, they don't reproduce well in a zoo setting, though the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust on Jersey has had some nice success over the years.

[SennaVille]

This bird does nothing but get its pad all pimped up. It decorates its love nest to entice females, knocks them up, then plays no part in the rearing of the babies. Each bird uses different items to entice the babes to visit. Not only things in nature, Vogelkop Bowerbirds near an Australian military base used things like spent shell casings to bling up their pads. There's rivalry too, Vogelkop Bowerbirds also mess up the pads of rivals-- one bird goes off for 15 minutes to collect orchid petals or something, another bird might come in and trash his joint.

Should you pick up a Vogelkop Bowerbird? He'll probably pick you up first, and not call again.

[texasmr2]

It was shot soon after this pic was taken and the authority's could not explain it's origin where it came from or what it was. 50% was sent to Area 51 and the other 50% too BE for 'secret' F1 driver experiments, found it on Wiki!

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Ok I'm finished carry on !

[SennaVille]

The Texmix



Found in urban areas. The texmix, although shy, is capable of sudden outbursts resulting in his signature wooop wooop call. Familiar characteristics are a tendency to blend words harmoniously....aswell is a common call of the Texmix.

Should you pick up texmix? No..Chuck Norris is scared of Texmix

[texasmr2]

I really enjoy watching the Discovery Channel when they go deep deep deep into the oceans but normally those show's with their newly discovered 'life forms' are about 1yr old before they are aired. So some have already read or heard about them but I find it very fascinating. So many undiscovered life forms/species left in the Amazon rainforest and in other parts of the world imho and hopefully we can atleast discover them before mankinds greed overtakes their habitat and add's them too the extinct list.

[F1er]

The strange length some creature go to,(just to get some) we (humans) have it easy



Dancing birds of Paradise
work the effect as he bobs, bows and dances performed for females during courtship display at chosen locations in the forests of southeast and eastern Papua New Guinea.

On occasion, the male dancer will even erect his feathers so they face the sun, likely hoping to dazzle the female viewer with an extra burst of color

[texasmr2]

Amazing, beautiful and inspiring yet sadly on the verge of extinction. I kinda get abit misty when I think about such things, I need a moment ok......... .

[SennaVille]

You left out the most interesting feature of the Aye-Aye (Daubentonia): its incisors (front teeth) grow permanently like in rodents and lagomorphs (rabbits, hares). It's the only primate species that has that feature and it has it of course because of its way of foraging.
Like most lemurs on Madagascar they are highly endangered - unfortunately, they don't reproduce well in a zoo setting, though the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust on Jersey has had some nice success over the years.

Hmmm, how come you have all that info at your fingertips, DD? Are you some kind of Biology expert?? You need to add your own strange creature of the week...

P.S. Quit dumbing down for us poor f1 forumites! Everyone knows what incisors are.....I hope...