indri

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It is the black-and-white indri, largest of the lemurs - a type of small primate found only in Madagascar.

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  1. noun A large arboreal lemur (Indri indri) of Madagascar, having large eyes and a rudimentary tail.

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  • It is the black-and-white indri, largest of the lemurs - a type of small primate found only in Madagascar. —  TIME.com: Top Stories
  • The largest lemur, the indri, has humanlike hands and feet that enable it to scamper up the dense tree branches in Madagascar's few remaining intact forests. —  TIME.com: Top Stories
  • We can conserve these wonderful animals like the indri and the diademed sifaka and at the same time make a major contribution to improving the quality of life for local people.
  • Lemurs display a range of unusual behvaiors from singing like a whale (the indri) to sashaying across the sand like a ballet dancer (the sifaka). —  Mongabay.com News
  • History of Creation Haeckel saw various lemurs as the root stock from which various groups of placental mammals sprang, rodents arising from creatures like the aye-aye, bats from the colugo (known not to be a lemur today, but considered to belong to that group by Haeckel), and humans from large lemurs like the indri. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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  1. Probably from misunderstanding of Malagasy indry, lo!.

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  1. = French indri, from Malagasy indri, man of the woods.
 

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