Brown Lemurs are the most common lemurs on the island of Madagascar, the only place in the world where lemurs are found. They exist in three populations on the island as well as an introduced population on the island of Mayotte.

Brown Lemurs are primates and inhabit a variety of forests including lowland forest, montane rainforests, moist evergreen forests and deciduous forests. They live 20 – 25 years and reach a weight of 2 – 2.4 kg (4.4 – 5.3 lb.). They spend 95% of their time in groups of 5 to 12 or larger in the upper layers of the forest.

Brown Lemurs eat fruit, leaves and flowers. Females give birth to one offspring each year.

Fun Facts

There may be 50 to 100 species and subspecies of lemur on Madagascar, depending on the system used to classify them. One now extinct species of lemur was the size of a gorilla. The smallest living lemur species is the pygmy mouse lemur which weighs only 25 grams (1 ounce).