The Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a strepsirrhine native to
Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth with a long, thin middle
finger to fill the same ecological niche as a woodpecker.
It is the world's largest nocturnal primate, and is characterized by
its unique method of finding food; it taps on trees to find grubs, then
gnaws holes in the wood and inserts its elongated middle finger to pull
the grubs out.

Daubentonia is the only genus in the family Daubentoniidae and infraorder Chiromyiformes.
The Aye-aye is the only extant member of the genus (although it is
currently an endangered species); a second species (Daubentonia robusta)
was exterminated over the last few centuries.

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