Aye-Aye
General Purpose: To inform
Specific Purpose: After listening to my presentation, my audience will know about the animal Aye Aye and it’s history.

I. Who here has ever been on an island? How about the island of Madagascar? Well those of you who haven’t been I’m with you but I have heard of a strange animal called an Aye-Aye. Do anybody knows what’s an Aye-Aye? Well that’s why I’m standing in front of you today to show and tell you about this strange creature and where it came from. II. I will inform you about the information I picked up from my 12th grade teacher, national geographic, and from bbc. III. The Aye-Aye is an amusing animal that is an educational topic to study and tell others about. IV. First I will explain what’s an Aye-Aye, its behavior and lifestyle, and then its habitat and superstition. What is an Aye-Aye? Are they dangerous or an effect to our surroundings? Why does it look like that? Well I’ll tell you why. I. An Aye-Aye is a related to the lemur and is a standout amongst the most abnormal primates on the planet, to such an extent that it was initially named a rodent. A. An Aye-Aye are related to chimpanzees, apes, and humans. Aye-Ayes are dim tan or dark and are recognized by a ragged tail that is bigger than their body. They additionally have huge eyes, slim fingers, and vast, delicate ears. Aye-Ayes have pointed claws on all their fingers and toes with the exception of their opposable enormous toes, which empower them to dangle from limbs. B. The Aye-aye can be found in a number of locations including Madagascar. It has an average life span of 20 years and is now protected by the law. It has various great morphological adjustments to its unordinary encouraging propensities, making it a standout amongst the oddest looking creatures on the planet. The species is in some cases alluded to as Madagascar's response to the woodpecker, because of its capacity to discover and tear out grubs from empty limbs. Like other Malagasy lemurs the aye-aye is at danger from the devastation of its woodland home for agribusiness and improvement.

Now that you know what’s an aye-aye let’s get into their more personal life.

II. Another thing you can learn more about is the aye-ayes behavior and lifestyle on the island. A. The Aye-Aye spends most of its time high in the tree, but they do come to the ground sometimes. Aye Ayes slumber, consume, travel and mate in the trees and are most normally discovered near the covering where there is a lot of spread from the thick foliage. Amid the day Aye Ayes rest in circular homes in the forks of tree limbs that are built out of leaves, extensions and vines before rising after dull to start their chase for sustenance. The Aye is lone creatures that denote its substantial home extend with fragrance with the more diminutive domain of a female frequently covering those of at any rate several guys. Male Aye Ayes have a tendency to impart their regions to different guys and are even known to have the same homes and can apparently endure one another until they hear the call of a female that is searching for a mate. B. The aye-aye mostly eats seeds because they are the easiest to find but they also feed on, insect larvae, fruits, nectar, and fungi. Aye ayes tap on the trunks and limbs of the trees they visit up to eight times each second, and listen to the reverberation created to discover empty chambers inside. When a chamber is discovered, they bite an opening into the wood and get grubs out of the gap with their tight and hard center fingers. The aye ayes starts scrounging anyplace between 30 prior minutes and three hours after dusk. Up to 80% of the night is used searching in the overhang, differentiated by incidental rest periods. It trips trees by making progressive vertical jumps, much like a squirrel. Level development is more troublesome; however the aye ayes once in a while plummets to hop to an alternate tree, and can regularly cross up to 2.5 mi a night. C. Female ayes have a smaller living area than males. A female aye living area goes up to 20 acres and males goes up to 80 acres. Consistent fragrance stamping with their cheeks and neck is the way ayes let others know of their vicinity and repulse gatecrashers from their territory. In the same way as other different prosimians, the female aye is overwhelming to the male. They are not normally monogamous, and will frequently move one another for mates. Male aye ayes are exceptionally emphatic along these lines, and here and there even draw different guys far from a female amid mating. Guys are ordinarily bolted to females amid mating in sessions that may last up to an hour.

III. You want to know something quite interesting about the Aye-Aye? We know about the basic information now let’s get into something more astonishing. I. Aye-Aye stays east of Madagascar. Its common environment is rain-forest or deciduous forest, however a lot of many live in developed zones because of deforestation. Rain-forest aye ayes, the most well-known, stay in overhang zones, and are generally located upwards of 700 meters elevation. The rest sleep during the day in homes inherent on the forks of trees. II. Also, the aye-aye is a near-threatened species not only because its habitat is being destroyed, but also due to native superstition. Besides being a general nuisance in villages, ancient Malagasy legend said the Aye-aye was a symbol of death. However, public contempt goes beyond this. The aye-aye is often viewed as a harbinger of evil and killed on sight. Others believe, if one points its narrowest finger at someone, they are marked for death. Some say the appearance of an aye-aye in a village predicts the death of a villager, and the only way to prevent this is to kill it.

1. An Aye-aye is still a very mysterious creature that we still need to learn more about and more details about where it’s from. How they behave seems normal and just like any other animal, they have their own ways to hunt and to live and superstitions are everywhere it’s up to us to believe it or not. 2. We all have our different opinions about this animal. We never know we might run into one and it points at you and you might just go nuts. We have our own minds and opinions.

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