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Aye-aye

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Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Primates
Family Daubentoniidae

The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a primate native to Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth with a long, thin middle finger to fill the ecological niche of a woodpecker. It taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the wood and inserts its finger to pull the grubs out.

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