With its bulging yellow eyes and giant floppy ears, this cute baby aye-aye just wants to be loved.But the six-week-old lemur is considered an evil omen in parts of its native Madagascar and must be killed on sight to avoid bringing bad luck.
It is believed by that if one points its long and narrow food-foraging finger at you, you are condemned to death.
Some even say the appearance of an aye-aye in a village predicts the death of a villager.
It is considered by many to be the strangest primate in the world with unusual physical characteristics including incisors that never stop growing, something unique among primates, extremely large ears, and a middle finger which is skeletal in appearance and is used by the animal as a primary sensory organ. Read More
