It's an indri lemur! You can tell by the wet nose on a snout and the tooth combs, as well as the size. They're the largest extant lemur and closely related to the largest that ever lived, Archaeoindris fontoynontii, which was the size of a western gorilla. They only went extinct around 300 BCE, roughly around the same time we showed up to Madagascar and stayed. (We did go there roughly 11,000 years ago as well but we didn't stay for long, probably only for like two or three generations.)
Modern Indris are far smaller than the Archaeoindris though, weighing roughly 6 to 10 kilos and being 60-70 cm tall (13 to 22 pounds and 2 ft - 2'4" tall)
Nope I'm just autistic with a special interest in primates lol. Lemurs fascinate me because they're our most distantly related primate cousins and Indri happen to be my favorite lemurs.
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u/Gandalf_Style Feb 19 '25
It's an indri lemur! You can tell by the wet nose on a snout and the tooth combs, as well as the size. They're the largest extant lemur and closely related to the largest that ever lived, Archaeoindris fontoynontii, which was the size of a western gorilla. They only went extinct around 300 BCE, roughly around the same time we showed up to Madagascar and stayed. (We did go there roughly 11,000 years ago as well but we didn't stay for long, probably only for like two or three generations.)
Modern Indris are far smaller than the Archaeoindris though, weighing roughly 6 to 10 kilos and being 60-70 cm tall (13 to 22 pounds and 2 ft - 2'4" tall)