How big does a Aye-aye get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) reaches an average size of 40 cm (1′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 24.25 years, they grow from 122 grams (0.27 lbs) to 2.74 kg (6.04 lbs). A Aye-aye has 1 babies at once. The Aye-aye (genus: Daubentonia) is a member of the family Daubentoniidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a long-fingered lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar with rodent-like teeth that perpetually grow and a special thin middle finger.It is the world’s largest nocturnal primate. It is characterized by its unusual method of finding food: it taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the wood using its forward-slanting incisors 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, and takes up 5–41% of foraging time. The only other animal species known to find food in this way is the striped possum. 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 invertebrates within.The aye-aye is the only extant member of the genus Daubentonia and family Daubentoniidae. It is currently classified as Endangered by the IUCN; and a second species, Daubentonia robusta, appears to have become extinct at some point within the last 1000 years.
Animals with the same size as a Aye-aye
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Aye-aye:
- Ring-tailed vontsira with a size of 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Red-bellied titi with a size of 35.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat with a size of 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Little Swan Island hutia with a size of 33.7 cm (1′ 2″)
- White-cheeked spider monkey with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- New England cottontail with a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Eastern cottontail with a size of 37.2 cm (1′ 3″)
- Chinese pangolin with a size of 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Central African oyan with a size of 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- American hog-nosed skunk with a size of 42.2 cm (1′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Aye-aye
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Aye-aye:
- Black and rufous elephant shrew
- Moose
- Moustached guenon
- Himalayan goral
- Southern forest bat
- Northern ghost bat
- Pudú
- Striped bandicoot
- Northern viscacha
- Natterer’s bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Aye-aye
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Aye-aye:
- Bontebok with an average maximal age of 21.67 years
- False killer whale with an average maximal age of 22 years
- Bighorn sheep with an average maximal age of 24 years
- Short-beaked common dolphin with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Guatemalan black howler with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey with an average maximal age of 27.25 years
- Giant anteater with an average maximal age of 26 years
- Indiana bat with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Egyptian mongoose with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Addax with an average maximal age of 25.67 years
Animals with the same weight as a Aye-aye
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Daubentonia madagascariensis:
- Pale fox with a weight of 2.8 kilos (6.17 lbs)
- Rüppell’s fox with a weight of 3.25 kilos (7.17 lbs)
- Red-eared guenon with a weight of 3.25 kilos (7.17 lbs)
- Smith’s red rock hare with a weight of 2.25 kilos (4.96 lbs)
- Quokka with a weight of 3.03 kilos (6.68 lbs)
- Johnston’s genet with a weight of 2.23 kilos (4.92 lbs)
- Wolf’s mona monkey with a weight of 3.26 kilos (7.19 lbs)
- Tehuantepec jackrabbit with a weight of 3 kilos (6.61 lbs)
- White-sided jackrabbit with a weight of 2.61 kilos (5.75 lbs)
- Wolffsohn’s viscacha with a weight of 2.68 kilos (5.91 lbs)