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Aye-Aye

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  Animal class: Mammals – (They are warm-blooded (the body temperature stays about the same temperature without help from the sun), breathe air with lungs, have a 4 chamber heart, have 3 bones in their inner ears, have vertebrae (a backbone or spine), have hair or fur (even whales and dolphins have some hair near their mouths), almost all species have a live birth, but 2 species lay eggs (the platypus and the echidna), all females produce (their bodies make) milk for their young, most have 4 legs or for humans, 2 arms and 2 legs, sizes range from the Bumblebee bat at 1 in (3 cm) to the Blue whale at 100 ft (30 m)) (Examples: Whales, people, dogs, and elephants. There are about 6,500 diff erent species.)
• Diet: Omnivore (They eat plants and meat) – Insects and fruit
• Lifespan: 20-23 years
• Predators: Fossas and large birds
• Size: 16 in (40 cm) long & their bushy tail 22-24 in (55-60 cm) long
• Species: There is only 1 specie of long-fi ngered lemur, but there are around 100 diff erent species of lemurs
• Speed: About 20 mph (32 kph)
• Status: Endangered (not many left ) between 1,000-10,000
• Weight: 4 lbs (1.81 kg)
• Where do they live? : They are native to Madagascar
• They have a special thin middle fi nger that they use to fi nd prey hiding inside trees.
• They use echolocati on (sound bouncing off an object) to help fi nd their prey hiding inside the trees (the only primate to use it). They will tap on the tree’s branches to find their prey. They will dig a hole into the tree’s bark with their sharp claws and dig it out with their long finger.
• They are nocturnal (awake at night) and are the largest primate to do so.
• They spend most of their ti me in trees and make ball-like nests toward the tops of these trees.
• These animals are mostly solitary (live by themselves) but hunt in pairs.