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Idri idri is found in
  1. Australia
  2. Madgascar
  3. Mauritius
  4. Tasmania

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Madgascar
B
Australia
C
Mauritius
D
Tasmania
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Idri idri is also called as lemur, which are a clade of strepsirrhine primates endemic to the island of Madagascar. The word "lemur" derives from the word lemures (ghosts or spirits) from Roman mythology and was first used to describe a slender loris due to its nocturnal habits and slow pace, but was later applied to the primates on Madagascar.
Although lemurs often are confused with ancestral primates, the anthropoid primates (monkeys, apes, and humans) did not evolve from them; instead, lemurs merely share morphological and behavioral traits with basal primates. Lemurs arrived in Madagascar around 62 to 65 mya by rafting on mats of vegetation at a time, when ocean currents favored oceanic dispersal to the island.

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