dphoadley said: I don't feel the need to hide behind a mask, nor behind a pseudonym i think for many people it's not a matter of hiding at all, but more a means of expressing aspects of themselves that legal names and actual photographs don't. that's certainly true for me. this particular avatar is an aye-aye (daubentonia madagascariensis), a seriously endangered species of madagascar lemur which uses echolocation to find grubs in trees. google images has lots of cool pictures of aye-ayes. i like strange and funky things, especially if they're alive. :)