Great photo . Seems that now RSCC have 4 species of Eupleridae on show - also ring-tailed mongoose ( old name ) , fosa and fanaloka . The last is very exciting , I look forward to the first photos of it .
Wonder if the 3 recently arrived species were sourced from Madagascar or from existing captive stocks ( not that there are many , if any , fanaloka around ) .
I did try extremely hard to get a photo of the fanaloka and was very patient returning to the enclosure on a number of occasions but unfortunately it remained out of sight. The enclosure isn't the best for photos anyway so hopefully they (it) will be moved to one of the larger enclosures eventually.
Talking to Todd on the day, it seems the fanaloka, vontsira and boky-boky () at RSCC were all wild-caught.
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the (probably apocryphal) story of the origin of the aye-aye's common name: to wit, when Pierre Sonnerat first discovered (in the scientific sense) the aye-aye in 1780 and showed the local people they expressed their surprise by crying "ai ai!" in wonder, which Sonnerat took to be the creature's native name (obviously shades of Sonnerat and the indri there, one may notice)
