How to Use aye-aye in a Sentence

aye-aye

noun
  • Thus, the aye-aye evolved to fill that vacancy.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
  • The aye-aye disrupts that pattern.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
  • The aye-aye looks almost nothing like a primate.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
  • The aye-aye, in essence, became a woodpecker by primate standards.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
  • This uncertainty is part of what makes the aye-aye such a fascinating species.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
  • And maybe that’s why many people find the aye-aye both fascinating and unsettling.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
  • This is likely the reason why the aye-aye took a wildly different evolutionary route to its counterparts.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
  • It was thought that the aye-aye’s taps served to identify hollow chambers inside wood using acoustic feedback generated by tapping.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
  • Over millennia, natural selection sculpted nearly every part of the aye-aye’s body around that strategy.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
  • Using its large, continuously growing incisors — which resemble those of rodents more than those of other primates — the aye-aye starts to gnaw its way through the wood.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
  • Isolated from the African continent, the island has evolved on its own terms, giving rise to wildlife found nowhere else on Earth—like the aye-aye, lemurs, and rare species of chameleons.
    — Erina Pinar, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2025
  • What is clear, however, is that the aye-aye’s comical assortment of features definitely isn’t incidental.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
  • The hypothesis was that if the aye-aye relied purely on hollow resonance, then the filling inside the cavities should have disrupted its ability to identify them.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
  • Unlike the thicker grasping fingers typical of primates, the aye-aye’s third digit is extraordinarily slender and highly flexible.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026

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