🐒Aye-aye
El aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) es una especie de primate estrepsirrino de la familia Daubentoniidae endémico de la isla de Madagascar, emparentado con los lémures. Su estrafalaria apariencia hace que se le considere el principal responsable del origen de la palabra «lémur», que significa en latín «espíritu nocturno». El aye-aye es el único representante vivo de su género (Daubentonia), familia (Daubentonidae) e infraorden (Chiromyiformes), lo que deja bien a las claras su extrema rareza. Solo se conoce otra especie próxima al aye-aye, el aye-aye gigante (Daubentonia robusta), que se extinguió hace menos de 1000 años.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.
- Body mass
- 2.61 kg
- Body length
- 0.42 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 24 years
Everything we know about the Aye-aye
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass2.61 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 2.28 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.42 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass45 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan24 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 32 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length7.99 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity2.3 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation167 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 165 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelOmnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range0.06 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density40 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l2.6 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Aye-aye yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderPrimates
- ›familyDaubentoniidae
- ›genusDaubentonia
- ›speciesDaubentonia madagascariensis
- classMammals · Mammalia
- infraorderChiromyiformes
- familyDaubentoniidae
- genusDaubentonia
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- suborderStrepsirrhini
- infraorderChiromyiformes
- familyDaubentoniidae
- genusDaubentonia
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