Snot just for finding grubs! Aye-ayes also use their elongated finger to pick their NOSE, study finds Aye-ayes are a species of long-fingered lemur that live on Madagascar A study reveals that the ...

This aye-aye, named Kali, was caught on camera sticking her extra-long, skinny middle finger up her nose and then licking off the snot — making her kind the 12th known species of primate to eat ...

In Kali’s defense, aye-aye fingers were made for picking. The primate’s hand makes up 41% of its forelimb (imagine an average-size human with a foot-long hand).

A 3D visualization showing the head and middle finger of a nose-picking aye-aye. (Image credit: Renaud Boistel) You can't pick your primate relatives, but your primate relatives can pick their noses.

Aye-ayes use their long middle finger to pick their nose, a first for this lemur species. But scientists aren’t sure why these animals picked up the habit ...

This aye-aye is not picking its nose, at least at the moment. Sylvain CORDIER / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Scientists have captured a video of an aye-aye, a kind of primate, picking its nose in ...

The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is the largest nocturnal primate. It is native to the island of Madagascar and known for its weird morphological features. Appearing to be half bat, half ...

Research scientist Eleanor Sterling spent almost two years stumbling through the dark forests of Madagascar in an effort to better understand the aye-eye, perhaps one of the most endangered ...

Aye-ayes just got even more unusual. The tiny lemurs of Madagascar, known for their large cartoonish ears and continuously growing incisor teeth, also have a sixth “finger” on each hand.