Indri
Indri indri
Mammalia
CRITICALLY ENDANGERED
Stats
- Lifespan
- 15-25 yrs
- Size
- Large
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Pair
- Biome
- Tropical rainforest
- Range
- Madagascar
- Movement
- Climbing
- Breeding
- Live Birth
- Defense
- Camouflage
- Status
- Critically Endangered
About
The largest living lemur, the indri has a panda-like black-and-white coat and almost no visible tail. Its eerie, whale-like territorial song carries up to 2 km through Madagascar's eastern rainforests — and the species has never survived long-term in captivity.
Life cycle
- 1.newbornA live-born newborn nurses on its mother's milk and depends on her for warmth and protection.
- 2.juvenileA weaned juvenile begins eating solid food and learning from its parents or group.
- 3.adultFully grown at adult size.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Primates
- Family
- Indriidae
- Genus
- Indri
- Species
- Indri indri