This past January I had the pleasure to re-visit Duke University's lemur center in North Carolina. I really recommend that you stop by if you have the chance (I'm hoping to head back to North Carolina sometime this summer myself), but if NC is beyond your reach the center has posted a number of videos of the non-anthropoid primates in residence. Among my favorites are the aye-ayes (Daubentonia madagascariensis), which you can see in the videos below;
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Oh yes, aye-ayes are incredible! There's a pair at London Zoo in a building on their own (although they share their exhibit with Malagasy giant jumping rats, Hypogeomys antimena), which is closed every time I go there! I took some great footage with a nightvision camera a few years ago, but since lost the tape :( They look so freakish, even more so in the dark with their eyes glowing demonically and their bushy fur making them seem twice their size. They move like giant squirrels, at least they did when I saw them.
In a previous post of yours that featured a ring-tailed lemur, I lamented the lack of photographs of these lemurs, my favorite and the closest thing to a real-life gremlin. Very good!