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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13 Responses to “World’s Ugliest Animal”

tarny on October 23rd, 2007 at 4:57 pm

I beg to differ. The blobfish is much uglier.
D. Ox on October 23rd, 2007 at 7:51 pm

Yikes!
Anonm on October 24th, 2007 at 1:43 am

its Golem!
Schtacey on October 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.
Taliba on October 24th, 2007 at 4:55 am

That’s a primate? Holy Cow!
Erik on October 24th, 2007 at 6:34 am

Yeah, I was shocked to learn this thing was a primate, too!
emily on March 11th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

its cute!!!!!!:)
Nicole on April 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
danielle on April 15th, 2008 at 8:03 pm

i hate this animal!!
its so ugly
tiffany on April 20th, 2008 at 10:50 am

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

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Cegah Satwa Punah on August 14th, 2008 at 2:26 am

Let\’s save endangered species and make world green
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