Aye-aye

This little weirdo hails from Madagascar and is able to boast to being the largest nocturnal primate on record, which I suppose is saying something, considering the size of its cousins. Named after French naturalist Jean-Louis-Marie Daubenton – who, incidentally, also gives his name to the island on which this creature is found – the Aye-aye is characterised by the odd way that it searches for food.  It knocks on the door and takes what it wants, though far be it for me to mislead you, what it actually does is rap its knuckles on tree limbs to find grubs.  It then uses its elongated middle digit to extract the grubs for a fine meal indeed.  Though all this is overshadowed by the fact that the Aye-aye is one of the ugliest primates to exist, possibly excepting certain members of the homo-sapien genus; it kindly tops our list of 7 Seriously Strange Animals.