Madagascar’s Middle-Finger Primate Isn’t the Loner We Assumed
Published on: Wednesday 26 August 2026
Scientists long wrote off the aye-aye as a solitary oddity, a nocturnal Madagascan primate with rodent teeth and a taste for beetle grubs extracted by its elongated middle finger. But new captive research is forcing a rethink of everything we assumed about how these endangered lemurs relate to each other.
