Dirty beast gets an hour of sex

That's 55 minutes of action, by the way. No foreplay for the aye aye lemur.

To put that into context the average human male can manage just three minutes before the deed is done.

This piece of information comes courtesy of Nick Baker's Weird Creatures on five.

The presenter could hardly contain his admiration for the aye aye as he revealed its insatiable appetite for sex.

Hang your heads in shame, homo sapiens, because we can't hack it compared to the sex addict of the animal world.

Not that a female aye aye can say no no,.

The male has a lock on its genitals that, ahem, keeps it in position even if Mrs Lemur has a headache,