The Bizarre Aye-Aye Isnt Giving Us the Finger After All

Published: Oct. 23, 2019, 9:17 p.m.

If it seems too good to be true, the old clich\xe9 goes, it probably is. And it doesn\u2019t get much gooder than the bizarre hand of the aye-aye, a specialized lemur that uses a hyper-elongated middle finger to tap along hollow tree branches, listens for grubs within, gnaws a hole in the wood, and reaches that middle finger inside to fish out the food.