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Aye​-​Aye

from Ensonglopedia of Animals by John Hinton

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I-I I-I am a primate, a primate.
Aye-aye aye-aye is a pri-pri-pri-pri-primate.

Before we get too far out of the gate,
Let’s get our fact straight
On how all of these primates relate.
In the last few million years there were lots of human species –
Homo ergaster, antecessor, heidelbergensis, rudolfensis –
of which we’ve found pieces,
But we've got to accept
There's only Homo sapiens left.

Aye-aye aye-aye, we’re getting our facts straight.

7 million years ago, we had descended from the trees,
And we had the same parents as the chimpanzees.
40 million years ago, an African monkey escapes
To South America, leaving behind the soon-to-be apes.
60 million years ago, the theory supposes,
Primates split in two – those with dry and those with wet noses.
And let’s look closer at one wet-noser,
A Madagascan lemur who’s a strict day-dreamer.

It’s the aye-aye aye-aye aye-aye and it’s a primate
The aye-aye aye-aye is a pri-pri-primate.

This tree-clinger’s middle finger is exceptionally long
Which it uses as a hammer and then uses as a prong
To extract the larvae underneath the bark of the tree,
Which is quite the feast, I’m sure you’ll all agree.

Local people think that it can be a bad omen
To spot an aye-aye wandering near to your home and
Will kill it on sight and hang it upside-down
To avoid bad spirits from visiting the town.
No wonder that there aren’t so many aye-ayes around.

It’s the aye-aye aye-aye:
Not a monkey nor an ape,
Aye-aye aye-aye aye-aye:
But it is a primate.
Aye-aye-aye.

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from Ensonglopedia of Animals, released October 15, 2018

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