Indri
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INDRI, a Malagasy word believed to mean "there it goes," but now accepted as the designation of the largest of the existing Malagasy (and indeed of all) lemurs.
Indri Classification and Evolution
The Indri is a large species of Lemur found only on the secluded island of Madagascar.
Indri
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see lemur.
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Lemur - name for prosimians, or lower primates, of two related families, found only on Madagascar and adjacent islands.
Indricotherium
A prehistoric mammal, Indricotherium transouralicum
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Indris are endangered, tree-dwelling lemurs native to Madagascar. They're known locally as babakotos, which means 'man of the forest' or 'little father' and unlike other lemurs, only have a short stumpy tail.
Indri, sifakas (for example, diademed sifaka and golden-crowned sifaka) and woolly lemurs have body plans that support a highly specialized mode of locomotion: vertical-clinging-and-leaping.
About Indri
The indri looks like a black and gray eddy bear, with a small tail and large rounded ears. They are Madagascar''s largest primate and also the loudest. They sing a song that can be heard more than 1.25 miles away.
Indriidae-Woolly lemurs and sifakas are the largest of the lemur families. Some can reach four feet (1.2 m) from head to toe. The sifakas have long spring-like legs that allow them to jump over 30 feet (9 m) from tree to tree.
INDRICOTHERIUM
Indricotherium (aka Baluchitherium) was a large, extinct, hornless rhinoceros. It was one of the largest land mammals.
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the Indri is the biggest of all still today living semi-monkeys. it lives in the eastern rain-forest in Madagascar. This jungle covers the East-hillsi...
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The Indri is the tallest of the Lemurs, and the Malagasy believe it to be magical, a human changed into this form after death. It only eats leaves, and it eats a large variety of different kinds of leaf in order to balance its diet.
Limicorallus (Indricotherium middle Oligocene of Chelkar-Teniz, Kazakhstan)
Nectornis (Late Oligocene?/Early Miocene of C Europe - Middle Miocene of Bes-Konak, Turkey) - includes Oligocorax miocaenus ...
The Indricothere Paraceratherium transouralicum, an ancient member of the rhinoceros family grew to an enormous size and is considered the largest land mammal to have ever existed, weighing in at about 15 metric tons.
A closely related family, Hyracodontidae, produced the largest land mammal to have ever lived, Indricotherium. This rhinoceros is believed to have stood 5.
Their ranks included some of the largest land mammals to have ever existed, including the ceratomorph Indricotherium which stood over 5 meters tall at the shoulder and weighed an estimated 15-20 tons! ...
Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
Eastern Cape blue cycad (Encephalartos horridus)
Indri (Indri indri)
Black lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysopygus)
Nordmann's greenshank (Tringa guttifer)
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Existing species range in size from the tiny 1-ounce (30 gram) Madame Barthe's mouse lemur (Microcebus berthae) to the 22-pound (10kg) indri (Indri indri).
The Hyracodontidae or "running rhinos" ranged from dog-sized to the largest mammal ever found on earth, the Indricotherium, 6 m tall, 9 m long and exceeding 20 000 kg.
Some lemurs, such as the indri, produce loud wailing calls to mark their territory while the sifaka defines its home range with "shi-fak" calls that sound like hiccups. Lemurs are endangered due to deforestation.
Analamazaotra (better known as Perinét, though that's really just the name of the nearby train station) is most famous for its Indris, beautiful large black-and-white lemurs with a haunting and ear-splitting call.
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Indriidae
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Family Lemuridae: lemurs
Family Lepilemuridae: sportive lemurs
Family Indriidae: woolly lemurs and allies
Infraorder Chiromyiformes
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Closely related to the true lemurs are the galagos or "Bushed baby" of South Africa; the potto of Africa; the slow loris and the slender loris of the Orient; the indri , the sifaka , and the mouse lemur of Madagascar; ...
Indricotherium, an herbivore that inhabited the forests of central Asia between 34 and 23 million years ago, was three or four times the weight of modern-day African savannah elephants.
Perissodactyls were once much more diverse, including the enormous horned brontotheres, the bizarre browsing, clawed chalicotheres, and the largest land mammal of all time, the Eocene Indricotherium (formerly known as Baluchitherium).
 See also: Lemur, Rhino, Diver, Rhinoceros, Sifaka
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