Indri indri

Indri

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---- The indri ( Indri indri ) is a Primate Prosimien pertaining to the family of the Indriidés.

They is largest of the Lémurien S, that one meets with Madagascar in the rain forest of the east coast. When it is seen stretching themselves with the rising of the sun or running drawn up on the ground, the Malagasy legend is included/understood according to which the babakoto (wire of the father) would have the same ancestors as the man! Other ethnos groups name it amboanala (forest dog) because of its eyes, its muzzle and its cry which evokes the howl of canine, but Indri is purely herbivorous. It has large members and a black and white peeling (belly, thighs and arms white, back, head and ends of the black members) and measures adult 75cm and contrary to the other lemurs, it has only one stub of tail (3 cm with more).

The indris are lemurs primarily arboricolous, diurnal, peaceful, alive in family groups of some individuals. Their food mode is composed of foliages, they consume up to 70 species different of plants.

They are territorial animals, and the various groups mark their presence, particularly at the beginning of day, by long cries or extremely powerful songs resembling blows of siren. The Canopée resounds then of the answers to intervals close to a group at the other.

It is a species endangered by the reduction at Madagascar of its habitat, the rain forest, one can however hear and observe groups of indris as well as other species of lemurs in the reserve of Périnet.

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