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Indri   /ˌɪndrˈi/   Listen
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Indri, Indris  n.  (Zool.) Any lemurine animal of the genus Indris. Note: Several species are known, all of them natives of Madagascar, as the diadem indris (Indris diadema), which has a white ruff around the forehead; the woolly indris (Indris laniger); and the short-tailed or black indris (Indris brevicaudatus), which is black, varied with gray.






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... foxes, others more resembling squirrels, and still others like flying squirrels—being possessed of a similar wing-like appendage, and capable, like them, of extended flight. They are known under different appellations, as Makis, Indris, Loris, Galagos, Tarsiers, Ay-ays, etcetera, and naturalists have subdivided them into a great number of genera. They are found both in Africa and Asia; but by far the greater number of them, as the Makis and Ay-ays, belong to the Island of Madagascar. The last ...
— Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found - A Book of Zoology for Boys • Mayne Reid

... the appearance of foxes, others more resembling squirrels, and still others like flying squirrels—being possessed of a similar wing-like appendage, and capable, like them, of extended flight. They are known under different appellations, as Makis, Indris, Loris, Galagos, Tarsiers, Ay-ays, etcetera, and naturalists have subdivided them into a great number of genera. They are found both in Africa and Asia; but by far the greater number of them, as the Makis and Ay-ays, belong to the Island of Madagascar. The ...
— Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found - A Book of Zoology for Boys • Mayne Reid



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