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Take your pick: Aye-aye joins ranks of snot-eaters

by Daniel Lawler Agence France Presse Paris, France (AFP) — When scientists caught the aye-aye on video using its strangely thin, eight-centimetre-long middle finger to deeply pick its nose, it pointed towards a larger mystery: why exactly do some animals eat their own snot? The footage resulted in research which names the aye-aye, a peculiar nocturnal lemur with big ears found only in Madagascar, as the 12th primate who picks their nose. It joins an […]