Primate That Hears Food Hidden Inside Wood

[00:00:00]One finger, three times the length of the others. The skull evolved around it.

[00:00:06]Found only in Madagascar, considered a death omen, killed [music] on sight. The aye-aye. The finger taps wood dozens of times per second, listening for the hollow beneath. The hollow changes the sound. [music] The aye-aye hears it before breaking through. That middle finger has a ball and socket joint found in no other primate. It nearly [music] rotates completely around. After locating the larva, it bites through, extracts [music] it with the same finger. In Madagascar, killed on sight.

[00:00:38]The belief its finger pointed at you brings death. The finger, the ear, the teeth, all built [music] for one thing, hidden inside wood.