Critically endangered black-and-white ruffed lemur, Varecia variegata, critically endangered mongoose lemur, Eulemur mongoz, and endangered red slender loris, Loris tardigradus. Le vari, le mongous, le lory. Copperplate engraving by Antonio Baratti after Francois-Nicolas Martinet from Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert’s Encyclopedie, Histoire Naturelle (Encyclopedia: Natural History), Livourne, 1774. Francois-Nicolas Martinet (1731-1800) was a French draftsman and engraver.

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