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Endangered Aye-Aye - Harbinger of Misfortune |
| Published: October 15, 2007, 10:17 am |
| Tags: offbeat news, animal, animals, aye aye, aye ayes, deforestation, echolocation, endangered, extinction, habitat destruction, mammals, primate, primates |
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Considered by locals as a harbinger of misfortune, the aye-aye is one of the world’s most rare and bizarre looking primates. To the Malagasy people, the aye-aye is magical, and believed to bring death to the village it appears in; therefore they’re often killed on sight. Kintana, a four-day-old aye-aye at Bristol Zoo Gardens in the UK, one of only two to be born and reared in captivity. The main threat to the aye-aye is destruction of its habitat. The Madagascar forests are cleared for sugar cane and coconut plantations, and are frequently cut down for use in construction of boats, houses and coffins, leaving the aye-aye without food and home. They’re forced to resort to eating what plantations provide, causing the animal to become a pest to farmers for which they’re often killed. Aye-ayes are typically unafraid of humans and easy to capture, targeting them as easy prey. Such hunting, coupled with habitat destruction has classified the aye-aye as [ Full article ] |
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