Nocturnal Oddities

The aye-aye is Madagascar's strangest primate, with bat-like ears, beaver-like teeth, and a skeletal middle finger used for tapping trees and extracting insect larvae. Local superstitions consider it a harbinger of bad luck, making it one of the most persecuted animals on Earth.

The star-nosed mole has one of the most bizarre facial features in the animal kingdom - a fleshy star of 22 tentacle-like appendages around its nose. This alien-looking organ is actually the most sensitive touch organ of any mammal, with over 100,000 nerve fibers.

Tarsiers are tiny primates with enormous eyes that cannot move in their sockets, forcing them to rotate their heads 180 degrees like owls. Each eye is larger than their brain, and they can leap 40 times their body length between trees in complete darkness.