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What is this mysterious rat-kangaroo-primate? Meet the Aye-Aye!

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For more than a century after Europeans first encountered the mysterious aye-aye of Madagascar in the 1780s, scientists and biologists just could not figure out if the weird beast was a rodent or a kangaroo or some bizarre type of primate. Guess what it really is ….

https://amnh.kinja.com/an-obsession-with-oddity-sir-richard-owen-and-the-aye-804016244

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