Summary
Why do some people call this animal the demon primate? And why does everyone call them the aye-aye? Does this creature have magical powers? What's with their bizarre middle finger? Is this creature the real-world grim reaper?
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| 0:00.0 | The human hand is super useful. It's the Swiss Army knife of the animal kingdom. |
| 0:08.0 | It picks up objects, throws things, catches things, climbs, builds, plays piano, punches, whatever. |
| 0:14.0 | Our hands are great because they're diverse. We evolved with our hands and vice versa, and we have a cousin in the animal kingdom, a primate, a lemur, who did the same thing, but different. |
| 0:28.9 | We have a cousin whose evolution was just as tied to their hands, but they didn't evolve a multi-tool. |
| 0:36.4 | No, they didn't evolve a Swiss Army knife. |
| 0:39.7 | They evolved a scalpel. A precise instrument designed to complete a single task, a blade |
| 0:48.9 | sharpened on the stone of natural selection. Today we are going to talk about our cousin with the amazing middle finger. |
| 0:58.5 | The I-I. |
| 1:00.5 | Dolb Antonia Madagascariensis. |
| 1:04.3 | I'm Mackin. |
| 1:05.5 | This is Species. |
| 1:10.2 | Hey, and welcome to the show. |
| 1:12.7 | Today, I'm not going to make a single middle finger joke because this is a family-friendly show. |
| 1:19.7 | And what I just said doesn't count as a joke. |
| 1:21.3 | I'm just mentioning the fact that this animal has a strange middle finger, and I'm not going to joke about it. It's serious business. |
| 1:29.0 | So subscribe wherever you can. Send the show to someone who likes animals. Find the show on |
| 1:33.2 | Facebook and Twitter, both at Species Podcast. Find me personally on Twitter at Mac and Murphy. |
| 1:38.5 | Five star reviews from iTunes and Facebook are read aloud on the show, every show at the end of the show. |
| 1:44.8 | So take a couple seconds. Leave me one. It really helps. Seriously, you're on your phone already. |
| 1:49.3 | Just do it. Thank you, Eric and the animals for playing me in. And now, without further ado, |
| 1:54.2 | I present to you the I-I. We humans like to start with our names. |
| 2:07.4 | It's the first thing we share when we introduce ourselves, |
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