🐒Aye-aye
마다가스카르손가락원숭이 또는 아이아이(aye-aye)는 마다가스카르에 사는 곡비원류 원숭이이다. 아이아이원숭이로도 불린다. 세계에서 가장 큰 야행성 영장류이며 딱따구리와 비슷한 생활을 한다. 특이한 사냥 방법이 유명한데 나무를 두드려 구더기를 찾은 다음 앞으로 기울어진 앞니로 나무에 구멍을 뚫고 좁은 중지를 넣어 구더기를 꺼낸다. 이러한 먹이 찾기 방법을 '타격식 먹이 찾기'라고 하며 먹이 찾기 시간의 5~41%를 차지한다.
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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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