Monday, August 31, 2015

Giant aye-aye

The giant aye-aye (Daubentonia Robusta) is an extinct giant relative of the living aye-aye (Daubentonia Madagascariensis) native to Madagascar. It died out about over 1,000 years ago due to human combinations and habitat loss. As of 2004, giant aye-aye remains consisted of 4 incisors, a tibia, and postcranial material. The species is known from subfossil bones found in a variety of caves in Southern and Southeastern Madagascar outside the living species' indigenous range. There were a few sites with D. Madagascariensis, but there is no evidence that the 2 lived at the same time. It may have died out as recently as the 1930's.

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