Our busting of spooky Halloween animals continues as we take a not so spooky look at ravens and aye-ayes. We first learn what's the difference between a raven and a crow as well as learn that not all black birds are the same (you ignorance ass). Ravens are the bigger and better bird species (if I'm allowed to be biased and since this is my weird animal podcast, I am!). We also take a dive in to multiple folklore of the raven; such as Norse mythology of both Odin and Loki, Pacific Northwestern Native tribes tales and were George RR Martin got the inspiration for Bran from.
But of course, most of us, thanks to Edgar Allen Poe and Brandon Lee's The Crow (they used a Raven in that movie, not at crow) are very familiar with the idea of what a raven is; but what about an aye-aye? If you have never heard of an aye aye, you are not alone. Its a primate lemur from Madagascar and one of the creepiest, weirdest looking animals on the planet. Tune in to this episode to find out just how weird this primate is.
**Correction: After listening to this episode I realized I had a brain fart and said that the aye aye's tail is fluffy like an aardvark...um NO!! Its fluffy like a Giant Anteater... Man I'm embarrassed.**
And to learn more or even donate to lemur and aye-aye conservation consider on clicking and donating to anyone of these wonderful conservation efforts:
https://lemur.duke.edu/
https://www.lemurreserve.org/
Scientific Names
Common Raven: Corvus corax
Aye-Aye: Daubentonia madagascariensis
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Our busting of spooky Halloween animals continues as we take a not so spooky look at ravens and aye-ayes. We first learn what's the difference between a raven and a crow as well as learn that not all black birds are the same (you ignorance ass). Ravens are the bigger and better bird species (if I'm allowed to be biased and since this is my weird animal podcast, I am!). We also take a dive in to multiple folklore of the raven; such as Norse mythology of both Odin and Loki, Pacific Northwestern Native tribes tales and were George RR Martin got the inspiration for Bran from.
But of course, most of us, thanks to Edgar Allen Poe and Brandon Lee's The Crow (they used a Raven in that movie, not at crow) are very familiar with the idea of what a raven is; but what about an aye-aye? If you have never heard of an aye aye, you are not alone. Its a primate lemur from Madagascar and one of the creepiest, weirdest looking animals on the planet. Tune in to this episode to find out just how weird this primate is.
**Correction: After listening to this episode I realized I had a brain fart and said that the aye aye's tail is fluffy like an aardvark...um NO!! Its fluffy like a Giant Anteater... Man I'm embarrassed.**
And to learn more or even donate to lemur and aye-aye conservation consider on clicking and donating to anyone of these wonderful conservation efforts:
https://lemur.duke.edu/
https://www.lemurreserve.org/
Scientific Names
Common Raven: Corvus corax
Aye-Aye: Daubentonia madagascariensis
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Welcome to yet another Halloween episode of Weird Animal Facts: Explicit. Where during this spooky time of year we look at some of the traditional animals of Halloween and find out why so many people are afraid of them and why all that is a bunch of bull shit. Then for our final week (which is next week) we look at two animals who you should fear. My name is Deidre and having worked as a zookeeper for ten years teaching people about the importance of animals, I’ve learned that people can be stupid…but not you. The fact that you are listening to this weirdly and somethings stupid podcast tells me you are smart. But the stupidity of human brains as well as our over active imagination are what creates myths and lies about some of the most important animals on the planet. So far we’ve learned the origins of the ominous owls, the not so blood thirsty, frenzy feeding teeth of the piranha and the truly blood thirsty-ness of the vampire bat. But today we will look at yet another traditional Halloween animal made spooky by Edgar Allen Poe as well as their own awesomeness, then we look at one of the weirdest, creepiest looking animals you have never heard of: Ravens and the aye-aye.
Even though you are more then welcome to follow this podcast on our multiple social media platforms or even google these animals so to get a glimpse as their true creepiness. I think, so to stay in suspenseful Halloween spirit, I would like you to wait until after you listen to the episode to jump on over to our Facebook or Instagram as I think it would be fun to allow your naïve superstition to get the better of you. I mean that’s what Halloween is all about! Getting scared! Getting spooked! Which I can’t necessarily promise you during today’s episode but I can promise you some stupid humor throughout this learning process.
Learning?! Ugh! I want to get the shit scared out of me! Tell me something spooky!
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary….Nevermore! Nevermore!
Although, this may not be too scary for you today, that poem was spooky as shit back in 1845. Speaking of spooky, let’s get started!
**Raven. You mean a crow? No, I mean a raven. What’s the difference? Its just a black bird. Just a black bird? Do you know how you sound right now? Its borderline racist but towards birds. There are tons of birds that are black. There’s the raven, crow, grackle, magpie, cowbird, starling, bobolink, emu, condor, cormorant, kite, hamerkop, penguins, currawong, butcherbird, apostlebird, tinamou, guan, curassow, brent geese, black swan (and I’m not talking about the movie, there really is a bird species), nightjars, swifts, cuckoo, coot, glossy ibis, palm cockatoo and there’s actually a species of bird called blackbird. And these are just the birds I felt like looking up until I got tired of it, because there are even more! So yes, a raven is not just a black bird. It’s so much more!
Fine, I get that a cockatoo looks different from a raven, but ravens are just adult crows. No. That’s wrong.
Hey there you kids at home; get out that bingo card as its time to play your favorite Halloween-avian themed game: Raven or crow? If it’s got John Cusack, it’s a raven, if its Brandon Lee, it’s a crow. Try not to get confused. As its true just like how both a raven and a crow are both black birds, both John Cusack and Brandon Lee are both white men… well kind of as Brandon Lee is Bruce Lee’s son…anyways, let’s get back to birds!
Fun Fact: Even though the movie is called The Crow, they used ravens…Those were ravens.
Ominous fact: Brandon Lee actually died during the filming of The Crow which only adds to both the raven and crow’s bad reputations. But since we’re talking about ravens today, let’s just forget about that sad, frightening fact and get back to the game.
Now that you have your bingo card ready let’s play the game! You’ve first have got to ask yourself, how big is it? We’re talking about birds, not your penis. If its real big and black then… it’s a raven not Terry Crew’s penis. If its not as big then it’s a crow. But how big is big? Well, a big crow is only about 20 oz, that’s how much coffee your Starbuck cup of venti holds. Compared to a raven that weights as much as a bottle of wine. So, would you rather have coffee or wine? For today’s show, we’re sticking with wine! Let’s all get drunk on Terry Crews. But we’re not stopping at the size alone because even though the raven and the crow are related, and both black you, the common Joe at home, can tell the difference. A crow kind of looks like a pussy, while a raven looks to be able to fuck you up. But hopefully you aren’t getting close enough to wildlife to piss them off and you see this bird of the night flying through the sky; but not necessarily at night (as they aren’t nocturnal). While that bird is flying in the sky take a look at its birdy booty; and what do their tail feathers look like? If you say black, you’re an asshole, because its much more then that. The crow’s tail looks as pussy and squared as their fluffy face as for the booty magic of the raven its pointed like a wedge (not a wedgy, but a wedge you shove under the door to keep it open). And if you happen to hear this mysterious bird’s call you need to ask yourself; does it sound like a pussy (crow call). If so it’s a crow. They go caw caw. While a raven sounds like they’re ready to fuck you up with their deep echoing croak (raven call). Now since we’ve gone through ravens and crows, take a look at your bingo card and tell me; which are you looking at a raven or a crow?! It’s a raven bitch.
“That’s so raven! It’s a bigger bird that I can see.
That’s so raven! A wedge-shaped booty.
Yay! Yep, that’s me.”
Throughout history ravens and crows have been confused for one another, and even used in the place of one another (as the movie The Crow has shown us. That’s a raven they used…not a crow. Because ravens are big ass mother fuckers). And if you ask me it would make more since for the Brandon Lee character in The Crow to actually be a raven, simply due to their social behaviors as crows are typically seen in groups, which is more his scene before his character died (Surprisingly a group of crows has a much cooler name).
Fun Fact: A group of pussy crows are called a murder.
While ravens are less social, such as the character of Brandon Lee portrays.
Fun Fact: A group of bad ass ravens is called an unkindness. Which Brandon Lee’s character could very well be seen as unkind (depending on who you ask)…so even though that movie is called the crow, it should be called The Raven. I guess I need to take this up with the comic book creators. It is too much to ask for story tells to portray animals correctly! Enough of the stereotypes. Its hurtful.
But since we’re now on the topic of comics and stories let’s take a look back at some of the original folklore of the raven. As many of us know, the Marvel comic book characters in Thor: God on Thunder is based on the Norse Gods. In Norse mythology Odin: Thor’s father, actually has two raven buddies! But according to their stories; Odin’s ravens were used as spies and came back to whisper the secrets of world to him and were named after thought and memory. Perhaps that’s where the idea of ravens being evil comes from; because they were sent to spy on us. And not the cool spy like James Bond but what American’s thought of the Russians back in the cold war. It’s a communist spy! Burn him! The reason for Odin being known as the Raven-God could be due to the fact that Vikings would occasionally die, as would the people they killed and ravens, are scavengers, meaning, if there’s something freshly dead, they’re gonna go eat it.
Fun fact: If you google Ravens and Viking in the United States, you get football results. Which is fine but…animals are way cooler! If these two teams teamed up and worked together, like their name sakes, the Vikings would completely demolish the Pats and Buccaneers then the ravens would swoop in and finish off their carcasses to leave behind nothing but their bones, pads and balls!
So, because ravens seem to simply appear around death, they became known as the omen of death. Which makes way more sense than an owl being called an omen of death as owls aren’t scavengers. But because ravens scavenge on death things, and since humans can be death things, it was also thought that ravens help spirits travel to the other side. And in a way they would help us get to the other side, if you think of the other side as fertilization. As everything that goes in must come out and that stuff coming out will help to fertilize the world around us. It’s the circle of life; thanks to ravens and crows. But for the Native Americans and Welsh, that’s not really what they had in mind by saying ravens were the connection to the spirit world.
Just like in Norse mythology with Odin, being the god represents the spirit world and watched all the world through his ravens, the Welsh and Celtics have a similar god. One that disappointed Game of Throne Fans may say sounds familiar. As my suspicion is that George RR Martin, might have gotten the idea for Bran based upon Welsh culture. The Welsh have a god named Bran the blessed and the word Bran is said to translate to raven. And in this Welsh story Bran is able to talk to the ravens and the ravens to him (sound familiar yet). But then his head gets chopped off, which I think some Game of Thorne fans would be all for besides the fact that the head can still talk to the ravens. Yep, Bran never dies! (Which might be where the thought that after you die you turn in a raven like King Arthur or even Brandon Lee, since it was a raven- not a crow they used). And while the decapitated Bran was able to continue speaking to not just the ravens but also the people, he was also able to foresee the future. And I’m sure this idea was brought on by the fact that ravens, like owls are thought to predict death, especially if they start flying around you.
One day the decapitated head of Bran the blessed, requested that his head be moved and then buried in what is now Tower Hill in London so that whatever magic powers he and the ravens had could be used to keep Britain safe from invaders! And to take this legend further; its thought that Tower Hill must always have six ravens within it or the Kingdom will fall. But the tower always seems to have seven, you know, just in case.
In addition to being the foreteller of the future and the on bringer of death, ravens are also known, in certain folklore for the same thing as Loki: a trickster. We know ravens are associated with death only because they aren’t too picky when it comes to the food that they eat, but a trickster? Think about Loki; in both the Marvel Universe and Norse Mythology Loki is the god of Mischief and if you’re ever truly had the opportunity to get to know any member of the corvid family you will know just how much of mischief they can get into.
Corvidea is the family (Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species) and in the family it includes ravens, crows, magpies, rooks, jays and a few others. And one common thing that connects this family of birds is their intelligent. Loki for example has proven to be very smart. If you think about kids in school, many of the smartest kids in school are the trouble makers. Teachers will ask why isn’t this kid applying himself, when I know he’s super smart? The answer could be the very same reason why ravens and their cousins can get into trouble: they aren’t being challenged!
Ravens are thought to be the smartest birds in the world…let me say that again incase you didn’t understand the magnitude of that statement: ravens are thought to be the smartest birds in the world. And their intelligences are even compared to that of apes and dolphins. And if you listened to last years Halloween episode about dolphin and why you should fear them, then you’ll know that it has to do with their intelligences. However, though in my professional opinion I think we should be more fearful of dolphins and apes then ravens because when a dolphin or ape fucks with you, you could die! Whereas a raven, isn’t going to just fuck with you unless you deserve it. Yes, both dolphins and apes have shown to be able to remember and recognize individual faces but unlike that dolphin that just tackled that paddleboarder out of nowhere, ravens and crows are known to dive bomb previous dick they have encountered in their past. And they can even pass that information on to the next generation.
Listen up kids. You see that tall naked faced dough bag walking around in an attempt to be as tall as a tree yet failing exceptionally? That’s a dick! Well, what about that long haired pretty one over there? Oh no she’s cool. Its this one that’s a dick. Let’s yell at him so everyone knows just how much of a dick he really is!
Is revenge the ultimate sign of intelligence? What about revenge that is cooperatives? Dolphins are just straight up dicks if you ask me while ravens are calculated dicks. Like Loki himself, and many of the Native American tales about ravens, ravens know when to mess with someone and when they deserve to be fucked up. In northern Northwest Coast mythology, Raven is the one who transformed the world; raven created the land, released the people and brought them fire and light. But in these same pacific northwest native stories raven is also a bit of a dick. Basically, he turned in to a pine needle for the sky chief’s daughter to drink, then later when she had a baby, it was raven! And raven pretended to a baby until he found where they kept the light and brought it to the people. That’s why we have sunshine!
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you are the raven and I love you! No one will know just what you do for us, you gave us the sunshine: but we hate you!
Please don’t hate the ravens of the world. Without then, and I’m speaking real now, no more mythology and folklore, these are real animal facts: without ravens we’d have a lot more roadkill that just stayed there. Rotting, getting gross, and creating a hospital environment for viruses and diseases that could ultimately kill us. They help to clean up the world so that we don’t live in anymore of a dystopia then we already do.
So next time you see a raven cawing at you, just know, that is if you weren’t a dick to it, its probably just waiting for you to keel over so that they can continue to help keep this beautiful world safe…I mean, they’re just saying hi.
**Aye aye: What the fuck? Alright I did what you said earlier and didn’t look up what an aye-aye is. Am I even saying it right? (Aye aye aye aye!) Even if you happened to go to our Instagram @wafpodcast to get an sneak peak at an aye aye you will probably still be asking: What the hell is that? It does look like something right out of hell; in fact Madagascar legend thinks that the aye aye isn’t that great of an animal to have around as someone you know will die! But before we get into the legend of the aye aye let’s figure out exactly what this thing is and looks like.
M: Howdy yall we’re Mother Nature and God and we have been renovating animals for over one billion years.
G: When trying to meet our clients’ needs, we look at the ecosystem as a whole as well as what our clients’ needs to survive.
B: Welcome to Animal Renovations.
G: Today we’re helping out the aye aye and Mother Nature has got her work cut out for her as the aye aye has some very unconventional exterior design requests.
M: But to meet those requests first God had to make a few modifications to our original lemur blueprint.
G: And by modifications you meant make it creepy?
M: The aye aye never used the word creepy as a way to describe what they were wanting.
G: But I can read between the lines. A fluffy tail longer than its body-
M: That’s not creepy.
G: I’m just getting started. A fluffy tail longer than its body, skink stretched out for ears, wide-ready-to suck-you-soul eyes and long thin fingers with an accent on middle one. Meaning not only did I make all the fingers long and thin like Nosferatu but the middle finger is extra thin and extra long like that of a daddy long legs. Creepy!
M: But there is a reason for all that…
G: Creepiness?
M: Quit labeling our clients. Its unprofessional. The long tail is to help it balance as it climbs along the branches of trees at night, and yes, the fluffy part I might have exaggerated, but its cute.
G: And that’s where the cuteness stops.
M: The aye aye is practical. Being nocturnal it needs those large ears and eyes so to better hear and see predators and their insect and fruit food in the darkness of night.
G: But that middle finger. That scrawny middle finger is like the legs of those humans who always skip leg day at the gym. You don’t look proportionate and it makes you creepy to potential mates.
M: You’re the one who designed the aye aye.
G: No. I constructed it. You designed. I’m just following orders and this one was not only weird but creepy as hell. And I know about hell: before Mother Nature and I worked together myself and Satin had our own business…it didn’t go too well. That’s why dolphins and geese exist.
M: And the murderous personality of the cat. As for the aye aye’s middle finger, you know it has a good purpose.
G: I know, to tap on the bark of trees to hear where the grubs are inside then to pull them out like…ugh! You know how the humans made those snake drains to yank hair out from clogs. Yuck! That’s what that middle finger reminds me of every time. That finger is the stuff of nightmares.
M: Don’t complain about the humans to me. That’s your fault. As is the aye aye’s mouth, which I think you did just to make it creepier.
G: I made those weird beaver-like teeth before I even knew your exterior plan. And you said that the aye aye was going to need a way to move back the bark of trees so to get to those grubs under the bark. Isn’t that what that creepy finger was for?
M: Well now the teeth and finger work together to get the food. But let me ask you; for a primate/lemur why did you think that using the teeth would be the most effective way of doing that?
G: In my defense their teeth aren’t actually rodent teeth.
M: They sure act like it since they never stop growing!
G: Aye ayes are primates!
M: Not according to your humans when they first started classifying animals. Because of your addition to their teeth, humans, thought the aye aye was actually a rodent.
G: But what are humans good at? Learning and doing better. Now they have it classifying correctly! As a primate lemur. But seeing that the aye aye fills the same ecological niche as a woodpecker and that New Zealand has just added a bat on their Bird of the Year voting list it doesn’t fair too well for the humans’ intelligences.
M: At least that bat was for a good cause. They knew what they were doing... I hope. As for the aye aye because of your foundation work, I could only do so much.
G: Now its my fault? Remember, this is what the aye aye wanted. Or so you told me; I don’t really talk to clients anymore not since science took over.
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In the case that Mother Nature and God weren’t too helpful to you in painting a picture of this creepy looking primate then let me see if I can help: The aye aye is a mismatch of many animals. About the size of a large house cat, with a fluffy tail like that of an aardvark…And I know, you’re thinking, this doesn’t sound that bad. A fluffy Persian cat, that’s sounds wonderful. Only the fur is coarse and shaggy, similar looking to the scrappy appearance of the opossum, the ears look like the human skin lampshade you’d find in a murder’s living room, eyes that are wide and glowing like that demonic creature living in the shadowy corner of your bedroom, teeth like a beaver and we can’t forget about those creepy ass fingers. And as God described, the middle on in longer and thinner than the others and gross looking. Perhaps the aye-aye looks the way it does because it was once a regular lemur who discovered electricity by shoving its middle finger in to an outlet. Either way you describe the appearance of the aye-aye, we can all agree that its weird creepiness makes it a perfect candidate for our Halloween episode.
Here’s some quick animal facts about the aye-aye so that you have a bit of a better understanding about its natural life: it’s a lemur, you know like Zoboomafoo, that is if Zoboomafoo was Glinda and the aye-aye was Elphaba.
Something has changed within me,
This primate is not the same.
I’m through with others saying, I’m not a lemur
I don’t play your game
Too late for looking cute
Too late for making sense
It’s time you respect this aye aye
Or I’ll just come at night and feed.
That’s right I am an aye-aye
Look at me I’m an aye-aye
And you should not be scared.
And like their other lemur superfamily the aye aye is found on Madagascar. Superfamily is just more detailed way of classifying animals (Kingdom, Phylum, class, order, family, genus species). The superfamily is one step higher than family. It is super after all.
Fun Fact: Lemurs are the world’s oldest living primates. The aye-aye looks to be the oldest, if going off appearances alone.
Some people say that the aye aye, is also the creepiest looking primate in the world. Then again these people have never seen me the morning after a heavy night of drinking. Unfortunately, the aye-aye can’t just chug some water, pop a few painkiller and sleep off their hungover looking face…and the older I get, neither can I. Plus if the aye-aye was hungover I don’t think they’d have the focus and will power to work that long creepy middle finger like a magic wand, thread through the needle precision that is needed to fish out their larvae lunch from the holes of trees. Have you ever gone to work hungover and tried to complete normal tasks like getting the daily weight of a Harris’s Hawk? That bird definitely watched me vomit right outside his door; but I got his weight; that’s how professional I am. *I should mention that I’ve only gone in to work hungover twice in my entire zookeeping career. Don’t do it. Just call out sick especially if you work with dangerous animals. Me, I worked with small birds and chinchillas. And no one has ever died via chinchilla. What I should have done, and what you should do when you’re hungover and are schedule to go in to work the next morning is inhabit the behaviors of the aye-aye; become a solitary nocturnal gremlin who hides away from society because if you show yourself looking like that hungover swam witch your melted make-up and pounding headache has created you will be beaten to death and hung by your feet as a warning to others to get their shit together.
As crazy as murdering someone for simply being, this is the case for many wild aye-ayes of Madagascar as they are said to bring death. If an aye aye points their creepy as finger at you its pretty much saying: “You’re Next!” And that thought is that you’ll soon die. When an aye aye sneaking into a home at night its said that they will use that creepy ass middle finger, you know the one designed to snake out larvae from the crevasse of trees, to dig out your heart, if you see this aye aye in your home before its slender man finger pulls out your heart, then you can’t live there anymore and will have to uproot your entire family and move. It was reported that and entire village was abandoned because of an aye-aye sighting. However, though some locals say that if you see an aye-aye in the forest nothing bad will fall upon you since its in its natural environment, seeing one in the real of people is the bad omen. But if you ask me the only one who should be worried about seeing an aye-aye in human populated areas in the aye-aye itself since these superstation of the aye-aye causes many people to murder then on sight. And now the aye-aye is one of the most endangered primates on the planet! Nice going humans. (Humans are dicks, humans are dicks, humans are dick, dick, dick, dick, dicks. We’re dicks!)
But not all humans are dick; like you, even if you have one, I’m sure you’re not a dick, you can’t be if you’re listening to this podcast. I love you. Other non-dick humans are those working at the Duke Lemur Center in North Carolina at Duke University in the United States.
Fun Fact: The logo for the Duke Lemur Center is an aye-aye (there’ll be link to their website in the episode description and the chance for you to donate to help them save lemurs. Including the aye-aye! So if you’ve been ever been called a dick in your life, here’s a way to amend that.)
Duke Lemur Center is top leading spot for lemur research and conservation and all through non-invasive ways; No lemurs were harmed in the conducting of their research. In Madagascar humans are taking over; only about 10% of the original vegetation remains on the African island meaning that lemur’s species such as the silky sifaka, mouse lemur, the aye aye and many more are at risk of becoming extinct. Over 30% of all lemur species are endangered including the aye aye but where most of Madagascar lemur population is endangered due to habitat loss the aye-aye not only has to deal with that but also the fact that everyone wants to murder it thanks to old time superstition. Just because something looks weird doesn’t mean it deserves to die! Alice Cooper is still alive, and let’s keep it that way.
-Just because something is unknown to use, or looks a little off, doesn’t mean we should fear it. Both the aye-aye and raven deserve better. They are both very misunderstood and very smart. The aye-aye has the largest brain to body ratio out of any lemur meanly, like all primates in zoos and under human care they need a lot of stimulus and enrichment so to keep them from the same craziness we all suffered during our Covid quarantine last year. Same thing is true for ravens. These animals are problem solvers and have very important jobs to do. They are the essential workers of their ecosystem. Ravens eat all the death stuff you don’t want to see and aye-ayes are helping the Madagascar trees to live longer by being seed dispersers and by eating all the larvae that could possibly shorten the tree’s life. And in case you forgot; trees are kind of important; seeing that they provide us with the air we breathe! And aye-ayes are pretty much using echolocation so to locate the larvae behind the bark. They’re like a natural stud finder…or opposite of stud finder…a wimp finder. Either way you look at it animals matter, especially those so called spooky, creepy animals that the enemies of Halloween wants you to fear! You don’t need to fear them, just gain and understanding so that you can learn to appreciate them and see what and wonder they are. And if you would like to help save these wonderful animals then consider donating to anyone of the links you will find in the episode description and until next time stay weird-WAIT!!! I forgot to do all the scientific names!!
Scientific Names are Hard. I was hoping we’d all forget about this since during my research I happened to glance at the aye-ayes scientific name and there’s a lot of letter in their name and I don’t think my poor brain is ready for it. But for those of you who enjoy my pain I have asked my roommate Emily to write down both the raven and aye aye’s scientific name so that I can spook you into seeing why reading a lot as a child is a good thing. This will be the first time I have ever read these two names out loud.
Common Raven: Corvus corax
Aye-Aye: Daubentonia madagascariensis
Good bye.