Wild aye-aye peering from a tree branch at night

Mammalia · Primates

Aye-aye

Daubentonia madagascariensis

Nocturnal primate that taps rapidly along tree bark with a thin, elongated, skeletal middle finger, listening through disproportionately large ears for the hollow echo of wood-boring grub tunnels, then gnaws a hole with perpetually growing incisors and hooks the larvae out with that same finger.

Realm
Terrestrial
Conservation status
ENEndangered
Data provenance

This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.

Method and version
Evidence snapshot

A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 52 licence-filtered records across 7 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.

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Retained datasets (8)