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Daubentonia madagascariensis
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Daubentonia madagascariensis
- Class
- Mammal
- Order
- Primate
- Family
- Daubentoniidae
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Size
- Small (under 1 m)
- Active
- By night
- Continent
- Africa
- Habitat
- Rainforest
- Conservation status
- Endangered
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- It taps on tree trunks with its thin middle finger and listens for hollow tunnels of grubs.
- In parts of Madagascar it was traditionally seen as an omen of bad luck, and people have killed it for that.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q186778 · All animals · All entries