🐒
Aye-aye
Daubentonia madagascariensis
Primates · Endangered
vs
🐒
Ring-tailed lemur
Lemur catta
Primates · Endangered
8 clips name both of them
1.5 million views between them.
Level on mass: Aye-aye 2.6 kg, Ring-tailed lemur 2.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
2.61 kg
🐒 Aye-aye · COMBINE
2.56 kg
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
Body length
0.42 m
🐒 Aye-aye · COMBINE
0.42 m
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
24 yr
🐒 Aye-aye · COMBINE
37 yr
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Animals caught on camera
Real footage of the animals on this site — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Strepsirrhini (suborder), home to 183 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 40 million years ago.
Estimates range from 34 to 47 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).