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Aye-aye
Aye-aye
Information
Range Madagascar
Scientific Classification
Kingdom Animalia
Class Mammalia
Order Primates
Family Daubentoniidae
Genus Daubentonia
Species Daubentonia Madagascariensis
Conservation Status
ENSpecies
THREAT-LEVEL: CIVILIZATION

The Aye-aye is a plague upon Madagascar. The aye-aye is a small bacterium, related to none, that hunts with spores for the indigenous people in the forests of Madagascar. The exact number of infected is unknown but it is believed to be between 60-80% of the population of Madagascar. The symptoms of the aye-aye remain dormant until the infection has spread to the hippocampus. Chinese breeding programmes have been established and some genetically modified strains of aye-aye have been released into various third world countries.

Symptoms[]

The symptoms include huge, ugly fingers, hair growth in unusual places, an unusually long nose, and huge ears that can hear babies crying through hardened concrete.

Diet[]

The aye-aye commonly consumes all carbon-based matter, including nuts, insect larvae, fruits, nectar, seeds, and fungi, classifying it as an omnivore. Aye-ayes are particularly fond of humans. It eats hair off of scalps as it moves through the body. An aye-aye not in its natural habitat will often steal loved ones, especially small children, from cities, towns, villages and plantations. Those infected with the Aye-aye tap on the windows and doors of the houses they stalk up to eight times per second, and listens to the echo produced to determine if any humans are hiding inside. Once a human is found, they will stop at nothing to gain entry and incapacitate the located humans, along with making a hole in the center of the victim's stomach area with their their narrow and bony middle fingers. They then put grubs in of that hole in an effort to spread the infection.

Images[]

World's_Creepiest_Animal_-_The_Aye_Aye

World's Creepiest Animal - The Aye Aye

A small indigenous child infected with the Aye-Aye. Stage III of Aye-Aye infection

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