Editing Indri (section)

===Mythology===
[[Image:Indri-drawing.jpg|right|thumb|300px|A lithograph of "''Indris indris''," (''[[Brehms Tierleben]]'')]]
Across Madagascar, the indri is revered and protected by ''[[Fady (taboo)|fady]]'' (taboos).{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} Countless variations are given on the legend of the indri's origins, but they all treat it as a sacred animal, not to be hunted or harmed.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}}

A legend tells of a man who went hunting in the forest and did not return. His absence worried his son, who went out looking for him. When the son also disappeared, the rest of the villagers ventured into the forest seeking the two, but discovered only two large lemurs sitting in the trees: the first indri. The boy and his father had transformed. In some versions, only the son transforms, and the wailing of the babakoto is analogous to the father's wailing for his lost son.<ref>[http://www.babakoto.eu/Articles/Madagascar/Babakoto/Babakoto-English.htm “The Indri Indri Alias Babakoto, One of a Kind.”] ''Babakoto.eu – Passionate About Travel.'' 23 July 2001. Babakoto.eu.</ref>

Another human-like characteristic of the indri is its behavior in the sun. Like its [[sifaka]] relatives, the indri frequently engages in what has been described as sun-bathing or sun-worshipping. As the sun rises each morning, it will sit and face it from a tree branch with its legs crossed, back straight, hands low with palms facing out or resting on its knees, and eyes half-closed. Biologists are hesitant to call this behavior sun worship, as the term may be overly [[anthropomorphic]]. However, many Malagasy people do believe that the indri worships the sun.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Masson |first1=Jeffrey Moussaieff |title=When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals |date=2009 |publisher=Random House Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-307-57420-6 }}{{pn|date=February 2025}}</ref>