The Aye-Aye's Secret Sixth Finger: the Discovery of a Pseudothumb

Original research paper:

"A Primate with a Panda’s Thumb: the anatomy of the pseudothumb of Daubentonia madagascariensis"
By Adam Hartstone-Rose, Edwin Dickinson, Marissa L. Boettcher, Anthony Herrel
Published in American Journal of of Physical Anthropology


Aye-aye pictures courtesy of David Haring and Duke Lemur Center:

Panda illustrations from "The giant panda : a morphological study of evolutionary mechanisms" by D. Dwight Davis

Video by Adrian Smith

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