Once a grub is located, the aye-aye gnaws a small hole into the bark using its teeth, then inserts its thin finger to fish the meal out. These long middle fingers have ball-and-socket joints, giving ...

Madagascar’s fabulously improbable wildlife, from gremlin-like aye-ayes to satanic leaf-tailed geckos, may be thanks to dozens of dramatic oceanic journeys that would put Robinson Crusoe to shame, new ...

A National Geographic Explorer is betting on the tasty and nutritious insects as an alternate food source to the meat of Madagascar's endangered primates. With its long pink nose and fluffy rear end, ...

Aye-ayes tap tree bark with that freaky finger and listen for the hollow sounds that indicate insect tunnels underneath. Their hearing is so sensitive, they can detect tiny differences in sound that ...

Lemurs seem to hug trees to keep cool on sweltering days. Chloe Chen‑Kraus, affiliated with Yale University, and her colleagues noticed that in the Bezà Mahafaly Special Reserve in south-west ...