📌 The Question:
Consider the following pairs :

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

(a) Only one
(b) Only two
(c) All three
(d) None

✅ Correct Answer: (d) None

🔍 Classroom Explanation (Pair-wise Check):

• Pair 1: Brazil — Indri ❌
  The Indri (Babakoto) is one of the largest living lemurs and is endemic to Madagascar, not Brazil.
  It inhabits Madagascar’s rainforests and is threatened due to deforestation.
• Pair 2: Indonesia — Elk ❌
  Elk (Wapiti) are native to North America and parts of Central & East Asia, not Indonesia.
  Indonesia’s fauna is dominated by tropical species, not large temperate deer like elk.
• Pair 3: Madagascar — Bonobo ❌
  Bonobos (Pygmy chimpanzees) are found only in the Congo Basin of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Central Africa).
  Madagascar has no native great apes.

✔️ Hence, none of the pairs are correctly matched.

🧠 Curiosity Raiser:
Why does Madagascar have lemurs but no monkeys or apes?
👉 Because it split from Africa before monkeys evolved, making its fauna a living museum of evolution.

📚 Enrich Notes (Prelims Gold):

• Madagascar → Lemurs (Indri, Sifaka), no monkeys
• Congo Basin → Bonobo, Chimpanzee
• Indonesia → Orangutans, Komodo dragon
• Elk → Temperate regions, not tropical rainforests

🕊️ IAS Monk Whisper:
“In ecology, geography is destiny — animals never forget the land that shaped them.”