| Extraits |
page 505
1996
| The indri, largest of all surviving lemurs, is also the most spectacularly peculiar.
Its neck is long, its limbs are lanky, its eyes glow yellow brown in a gawky black jackal-like face. Its ears are smallish and round, like a koala's...
it moves through the forest without touching the ground -- by making broad jumps from the trunk of one tree to another, sometimes twenty or twenty-five feet across gaps...
The song of the indri is an unearthly sound. It carries through the forest for more than a mile...
It has been said to be one of the loudest noises made by any living creature.
It's a sliding howl, eerie but beautiful, like a cross between the call of the humpback whale and a saxophone riff by Charlie Parker. |
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