. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. 74 THE HALF-MONKEYS OR LEMCROWS. 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 th
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. 74 THE HALF-MONKEYS OR LEMCROWS. 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 ;. a], cla ith the Lc eculiar knn AYE-AYE. This i from all others of that orck . many of its oddities—the long, sprawling fingers, all except the thumb having pointed claws (the third finger being especially longl, the loose straggling outer fur that covers a woolly undercoat, the large, naked ears, the long bushy tail, and even the rat-like teeth, are vividly portrayed. {Chiromys madagascariensis.) the small, fixed, stirring, glowing eyes, with a pupil smaller than that of any nocturnal Monkey ; the mouth, which shows a certain likeness to a Parrot's beak, the considerable size of the body and the long tail, which, like the body, is clothed scantily with long, stiff, bristle-like hair, and, lastly, the remark- able hands with their withered middle finger—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
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