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Indri indri
Indri indri is the largest living lemur, standing up to 90 cm and weighing around 7 kg, and it is the only one with essentially no tail - a stub of a few centimetres, which is startling in a group defined by long tails. Its locomotion is vertical clinging and leaping: it grips a…
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- The Indri cannot survive in captivity and has never been successfully kept in any zoo or wildlife park worldwide.
- The name may come from a Malagasy phrase meaning "look, there it is" - a guide's exclamation misheard by an eighteenth-century French naturalist as the animal's name. In Malagasy tradition the indri, babakoto, is often treated as an ancestor and protected by fady, or taboo, which has shielded it locally where legal protection has not. No indri has ever bred successfully in captivity, and attempts to hold them outside Madagascar have all failed.
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