a large Madagascan lemur with black and white markings and a short tail: Indri indri
French indri from Malagasy indry look!. It is reported, apparently reliably, that this name arose from a misapprehension by the French naturalist Pierre Sonnerat, who visited Madagascar in the 1780s. When the animal came into sight, Sonnerat's Malagasy escorts cried indry! (= look!), which he mistook for the name of the animal. The true Malagasy name is babakoto