World’s Ugliest Animal

Aye-aye

The Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a strepsirrhine native to Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth with a long, thin middle finger to fill the same ecological niche as a woodpecker. It is the world’s largest nocturnal primate, and is characterized by its unique method of finding food; it taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the wood and inserts its elongated middle finger to pull the grubs out.

Daubentonia is the only genus in the family Daubentoniidae and infraorder Chiromyiformes. The Aye-aye is the only extant member of the genus (although it is currently an endangered species); a second species (Daubentonia robusta) was exterminated over the last few centuries.

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16 Responses to “World’s Ugliest Animal”

tarny
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2007 at 4:57 pm
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I beg to differ. The blobfish is much uglier.

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D. Ox
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2007 at 7:51 pm
2

Yikes!

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Anonm
Posted: Oct 24th, 2007 at 1:43 am
3

its Golem!

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Schtacey
Posted: Oct 24th, 2007 at 2:25 am

The blob fish? I thought monk fish. But hell, it looks like a Chinese Crested with cuter paws and ears.

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Taliba
Posted: Oct 24th, 2007 at 4:55 am
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That’s a primate? Holy Cow!

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Erik
Posted: Oct 24th, 2007 at 6:34 am
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Yeah, I was shocked to learn this thing was a primate, too!

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emily
Posted: Mar 11th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
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its cute!!!!!!:)

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Nicole
Posted: Apr 2nd, 2008 at 6:38 pm

its ugly…i did a project on it… top 5 ugliest animals and this was #1 before i saw the web site. but still the more i look at it i think its cute. probably because i feel sorry for it. :S <3

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danielle
Posted: Apr 15th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
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i hate this animal!!
its so ugly

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tiffany
Posted: Apr 20th, 2008 at 10:50 am

that animal i ever seen ill!!!!!!!!!

:( :( :( “( :( :(

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Cegah Satwa Punah
Posted: Aug 14th, 2008 at 2:26 am

Let\’s save endangered species and make world green

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BUBBLEZ
Posted: May 11th, 2009 at 12:17 pm

omg that thing is ugly!!!!but i feel sorry 4 it!!wouldnt u????

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Posted: Jun 20th, 2009 at 3:50 pm

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