Bizarre aye-aye primates take nose picking to the extreme

[kestrel9]

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/aye ... ng-fingers


Aye-ayes aren’t the most photogenic creatures under the best of circumstances. But caught in the dead of night, hunched over with several centimeters of finger stuck up its nose, this bizarre primate looks positively haunting.
© A.-C. FABRE

Aye-ayes are true champions of nose picking.

A new video offers the first evidence that these nocturnal lemurs of Madagascar stick their fingers up their noses and lick off the mucus. They don’t use just any finger for the job, either. The primates go spelunking for snot with the ultralong, witchy middle finger they typically use to find and fish grubs out of tree bark.

A reconstruction of the inside of an aye-aye’s head based on CT scans shows that this spindly digit probably pokes all the way through the animal’s nasal passages to reach its throat, researchers report online October 26 in the Journal of Zoology.

A reconstruction of the internal structure of an aye-aye’s head, based on CT scans, reveals that when the primate picks its nose, the tip of the long middle digit probably reaches the back of the throat.
FROM LEFT: © RENAUD BOISTEL; © DAVID HARING/DUKE LEMUR CENTER

The new footage stars Kali, a female aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) at the Duke Lemur Center in Durham, N.C. “The aye-aye stopped eating and started to pick its nose, and I was really surprised,” says evolutionary biologist Anne-Claire Fabre, who filmed the video. “I was wondering where the finger was going.” An aye-aye is about as big as a house cat, but its clawed middle finger is some 8 centimeters long. And Kali was plunging almost the entire digit up her snout to sample her own snot with dainty licks.

“There is one moment where the camera is [shaking], and I was giggling,” says Fabre, of the Natural History Museum of Bern in Switzerland. Afterward, she asked her colleagues if they had ever seen an aye-aye picking its nose. “The ones that were working a lot with aye-ayes would tell me, ‘Oh, yeah, it’s happening really often,’” says Fabre, who later witnessed the behavior in several other aye-ayes.

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[shewhomustbeobeyed]

Reported for borderline racism!

[kestrel9]

Reported for borderline racism!

You know, I could have doxxed a recently banned someone with that video, but in doing so I would have risked a ban!! Now that you mention it though, I should have figured they were a booger licking 'person of color', they only lasted here maybe 2 or 3 posts/comments.

[shewhomustbeobeyed]

Reported for borderline racism!

You know, I could have doxxed a recently banned someone with that video, but in doing so I would have risked a ban!! Now that you mention it though, I should have figured they were a booger licking 'person of color', they only lasted here maybe 2 or 3 posts/comments. :lol: :lol: :lol:

At first I thought you were talking about @antiliberalsociety. But since there's no picture of his skull caving in, after booger removal. I knew it couldn't be him. So that leaves blumfag
If @SearchVoat had let me staple @blumen4alles bottom lip to the top of his nose, like I asked, none of this would have happened.
See? Right again!
:p

[Thisismyaccount]

Nothing wrong with the video. Mother nature at her best, it was only mining for nose gold SWMBO

[DeTroyDeHelen]

Reported for borderline racism!

You know, I could have doxxed a recently banned someone with that video, but in doing so I would have risked a ban!! Now that you mention it though, I should have figured they were a booger licking 'person of color', they only lasted here maybe 2 or 3 posts/comments.

At first I thought you were talking about @antiliberalsociety. But since there's no picture of his skull caving in, after booger removal. I knew it couldn't be him. So that leaves blumfag
If @SearchVoat had let me staple @blumen4alles bottom lip to the top of his nose, like I asked, none of this would have happened.
See? Right again!
:p

I was referring to this logged event 2022-10-13 22:45:18 @SearchVoat banned @DeTroyDeHelen for Rule 6: You must not use an alt account to avoid a ban

I suspect that ALS and Blm4ped are too smart to be caught on camera picking their noses.

[DeTroyDeHelen]

I was referring to this logged event 2022-10-13 22:45:18 @SearchVoat banned @DeTroyDeHelen for Rule 6: You must not use an alt account to avoid a ban

Right. Didn't you say it was ALS? If it wasn't als, then it's b4a? Who else could it be?

I suspect that ALS and Blm4ped are too smart to be caught on camera picking their noses.

How long were you in the wine cave before you wrote this?

[DeTroyDeHelen]

I was referring to this logged event 2022-10-13 22:45:18 @SearchVoat banned @DeTroyDeHelen for Rule 6: You must not use an alt account to avoid a ban

Right. Didn't you say it was ALS? If it wasn't als, then it's b4a? Who else could it be?

I suspect that ALS and Blm4ped are too smart to be caught on camera picking their noses.

How long were you in the wine cave before you wrote this?

Well, it did seem unusual to find a personalized charcuterie board (with the cutest mushrooms!) and an uncorked bottle of Merlot with a welcome note: "Enjoy your stay Mate!". I assumed it was someone from SVF, like the tidy lady from the GA Island who has been MIA lately. But maybe some crazy Aussies from another forum have infiltrated our little community! All I know at this point is I never want to be interrogated by a spooky Aye-Aye with their creepy 8 cm nose picking digit!
Reading Aye-Aye folklore is not for the faint of heart! https://pilerats.com/written/light-easy ... e-aye-aye/

Unfortunately, the strange and mystical persona of the Aye-Aye hasn't done it any favors amongst the local Madagascan people, with the belief that if one points that terrifyingly slender digit at you, you are marked for death, and the only way to end the curse is to kill the animal that marked you. On that note; it’s probably safe to say you shouldn’t walk around Madagascar flippin’ the bird at the locals. Some folk even believe that it is responsible for sneaking into victims’ houses at night and murdering them while they sleep, using its infamous middle finger to puncture their aorta. Sweet dreams, right?

Seriously though, I would never hurt the creepy little guy, even if he flipped that skinny bird at me

hmmm...there's something strangely familiar about this...

[kestrel9]

Reported for borderline racism!

You know, I could have doxxed a recently banned someone with that video, but in doing so I would have risked a ban!! Now that you mention it though, I should have figured they were a booger licking 'person of color', they only lasted here maybe 2 or 3 posts/comments.

At first I thought you were talking about @antiliberalsociety. But since there's no picture of his skull caving in, after booger removal. I knew it couldn't be him. So that leaves blumfag
If @SearchVoat had let me staple @blumen4alles bottom lip to the top of his nose, like I asked, none of this would have happened.
See? Right again!
:p

Oh good Lord, that's not an idle threat! Who was it?

[shewhomustbeobeyed]

You know, I could have doxxed a recently banned someone with that video, but in doing so I would have risked a ban!! Now that you mention it though, I should have figured they were a booger licking 'person of color', they only lasted here maybe 2 or 3 posts/comments. :lol: :lol: :lol:

At first I thought you were talking about @antiliberalsociety. But since there's no picture of his skull caving in, after booger removal. I knew it couldn't be him. So that leaves blumfag
If @SearchVoat had let me staple @blumen4alles bottom lip to the top of his nose, like I asked, none of this would have happened.
See? Right again!
:p

Oh good Lord, that's not an idle threat! Who was it?

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