The Aye-aye By Dane J

THE AYE-AYE Dane Jones

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Orders: Primates Suborder: Strepsirrhini Infraorder: Chiromyiforms Family: Daubentoniidae Genus: Daubentonia Species: D. madagascariensis

AYE-AYE INFORMATION The aye-aye is easily recognized as a mammal because it is a vertebrate animal characterized by its mammary gland, which is an organ that produces milk to feed its young. The relatives to the aye-aye are all lemurs such as the ring-tailed and the mongoose lemurs. Aye-ayes are only found to be native in the country of madagascar. Aye-ayes are only known to live in big jungles cause scientist strongly believe that they need big trees to make effective nest for there young. Aye-ayes have a daily routine of being nocturnal meaning they are only active at night. The main reason for a decline in there numbers is deforestation leaving them on the endangered list. Aye-ayes are not thought to be good at adapting to change.

Native people to Madagascar think that the aye-aye is a sign of misfortune so most aye-ayes are killed on sight The main reason for the Aye-aye becoming endangered is the fact that deforestation is really narrowing down the area that the aye-aye needs to survive. They have the aye-aye protected from hunters and natives who kill them for unknown reason although they do not strongly enforce the law.

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