Researchers have, for the first time, recorded the aye-aye – a long-fingered lemur – inserting its extremely long digit up its nostrils and then licking its finger clean.
Nose picking and snot eating may be frowned on among humans but one particular type of primate species has specialised fingers for doing just that, scientists have found.
So far 12 other primate species, including humans, have been documented picking their nose and eating the mucus.
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