. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. 74 THE HALF-MONKEYS OR LEMUROIDS. I had the opportunity of observing the Aye-Aye in London, though unfortunately but for a single evening. Yet I saw that Sonnerat's description requires not only additional details but correction. I will, therefore, give here an account of my own experiences and of what the keepers told me. The animal really resembles no one mammal to a noticeable extent. It reminds one a little of the Galagos, but a naturalist woul
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. 74 THE HALF-MONKEYS OR LEMUROIDS. I had the opportunity of observing the Aye-Aye in London, though unfortunately but for a single evening. Yet I saw that Sonnerat's description requires not only additional details but correction. I will, therefore, give here an account of my own experiences and of what the keepers told me. The animal really resembles no one mammal to a noticeable extent. It reminds one a little of the Galagos, but a naturalist would hardly think of classifying it with them. The thick, broad head, with its large ears, making it appear still wider ;. AYE-AYE. 'I Ms animal, classed with the Lemurs, but differing in many respects from all others of thai order, is the most peculiar known to naturalists. The picture shows many of its oddities the long, sprawling fingers,all except the thumb having pointed claws (the third hi haggling outer fur that covers a woolly the long bushy tail, ana even the rat-like teeth, are vividly | the small, fixed, stirring, glowing eye, with a pupil smaller than that of any nocturnal Monkey ; the month, which shows a certain likeness to a Parrot's i iderable size of the body and the long tail, whit h, like the body, is clothed scantily with Stiff, bristle-like hair, and, lastly, the remark- able hands with their slender middle fingers—all these peculiarities give the animal so strange an appearance that one vainly cudgels one's brains in the effort to classify it with creatures resembling it. Night is Day A cursory glance at the Aye-Aye is to the sufficient to tell the naturalist that he is Aye-Aye. dealing with a nocturnal animal. The Aye-Aye is more afraid of light than any mammal of which I know anything. A Half-Monkey can be awakened at least; he gropes around, looks wonder- ingly at the world in daylight, takes some interest in a Beetle humming near by, even licks and stro
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