Aye-aye

The aye-aye (Daubentonia Madagascariensis) is a lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth that perpetually grow and a special thin middle finger. It is the world's largest nocturnal primate, and characterized by its unusual method of finding food; it taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the wood using its incisors to create a small hole in which it inserts its narrow middle finger to pull the grubs out. There is another animal to find food this way called the striped possum. Either it is endangered or near threatened. Like the fossa, the aye-aye has a freakishly cool, long body part for balancing and finding food and also have giant relatives of their own, which are extinct. The giant aye-aye died out about over a thousand years ago. Because it has a long finger to tap on a tree and listen to the slightest vibration, it's just like a woodpecker by doing the same thing with its beak. Aye-ayes are commonly thought to be bad omens by some of the Malagasy people, although other legends consider them a good omen. When spotted, they are killed on sight and hung up so that the evil spirit will be carried away by travelers.