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title: "Palczakowate"
description: "Daubentonia madagascariensis — Ssaki. 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 that they can use to catch grubs and larvae out of tree trunks."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/aye-aye
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Palczakowate

> Daubentonia madagascariensis — Ssaki. 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 that they can use to catch grubs and larvae out of tree trunks.

- Scientific name: *Daubentonia madagascariensis*
- Category: `mammals` (Ssaki)
- Habitats: `forest` (Las), `jungle` (Dżungla)
- iNaturalist observations: 180
- Wikidata: [Q186778](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186778)
- iNaturalist taxon: [43558](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/43558)

## Names

- en: Aye-aye
- de: Fingertier
- es: Aye-aye
- fr: Aye-aye
- nl: Vingerdier
- pt: Aie-aie
- pl: Palczakowate

## Countries with the most observations

MG (122)

## Summary

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 that they can use to catch grubs and larvae out of tree trunks.
It is the world's largest nocturnal primate. It is characterized by its unusual method of finding food: It taps on trees and listens for echoes that signal hollows inside them, which are often infested by grubs, then gnaws holes into the wood using its forward-slanting incisors to create a small hole into which it inserts its narrow middle finger to pull the grubs…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aye-aye

## Photo

![Palczakowate](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/aye-aye/medium.jpg)

Photo: Светлана Царахова · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/218430206

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/aye-aye?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).