Before I go into everything about this animal, let's all just take a moment and be thankful that we don't live near these things! And if you do, i'm sorry, so...so sorry!

The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a type of lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth and a special thin middle finger to fill the same ecological niche as a woodpecker.

It is the world's largest nocturnal primate, and is characterized by its unusual method of finding food; Get this, it taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the wood using its forward slanting teeth to create a small hole in which it inserts its narrow middle finger to pull the grubs out. This foraging method is called "percussive foraging". From an ecological point of view the aye-aye fills the niche of a woodpecker, as it is capable of penetrating wood to extract the "food" inside of it.