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Indri

IN-dree
Also Known As Babakoto
Mammals
Indri

One of the largest living lemurs, inhabiting lowland and montane rainforest along the eastern coast of Madagascar and known for a loud, wailing territorial call audible for kilometres through the canopy. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Classification
Diet
Herbivore 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 2
Relationship to People
Hunted or Fished 1
Living or Extinct
Yes 3
Derived from this species' own Conservation Status: this atlas's IUCN category list has no Extinct value, so a set conservation-status is itself evidence of living status (w-bfill-g5-0924 browse backfill).
Scientific Name
Indri indri 4
Conservation Status
Critically Endangered 4
IUCN Red List, assessed by King, Dolch, Randriahaingo, Randrianarimanana and Ravaloharimanitra in 2020 (dated assessed 7 May 2018, published 2020). Status has worsened over time: Endangered 2000-2008, Critically Endangered since 2014. Fewer than 10,000 individuals estimated, decreasing.
Disputed
Population Estimate
1000 4
Published estimates span an order of magnitude, from 1,000 to 10,000 individuals; the lower, more conservative bound is recorded here.
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Indriidae, Taxa
Source Catalogue of Life

In Ecosystem

Source Indri (Wikipedia)

Open Questions

Source Indri (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Indri
Wikipedia
  • Lead section
    It is also hunted despite taboos against this
  • system (MediaWiki batch-API article extract states it plainly, diet)
    It is monogamous and lives in small family groups, moving through the canopy, and is herbivorous, feeding mainly on leaves but also seeds, fruits, and flowers.
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2. Indri (Wikipedia)
a diurnal tree-dweller... native to MadagascarView the Source
3. GBIF Species API
GBIF Species APIView the Source
4. Indri (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead and Habitat sections
    one of the largest living lemurs, with a head-body length of about 64-72 cm (25-28.5 in)
  • Taxobox
  • Etymology section
    Another Malagasy name for the animal is babakoto.
  • Lead section IPA
  • Conservation status section
    The indri is a critically endangered species.
  • Population section
    1,000 - 10 000 individuals
  • References, IUCN citation
    King, T.; Dolch, R.; Randriahaingo, H.N.T.; Randrianarimanana, L.; Ravaloharimanitra, M. (2020). Indri indri. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020 e.T10826A115565566.
  • In Ecosystem: Madagascar Rainforests, Habitat section
    lowland and montane forests along the eastern coast of Madagascar
  • Open Questions: Open Question: Indri Population
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Wikidata: Indri
Wikidata Q203868, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
Catalogue of Life
Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of LifeChild Taxon Of: IndriidaeView the Source
Open Questions (1 open question)
Open Question: Indri Population

Published population estimates for the indri range from 1,000 to 10,000 individuals, a full order of magnitude of uncertainty, reflecting how little of its fragmented eastern Madagascar rainforest range has been systematically surveyed.

What would resolve this A systematic acoustic or transect survey across the indri's remaining rainforest fragments, standardised so counts from different reserves can be summed without double counting.
Population EcologyIndri (Wikipedia)
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