2.1-2.4kg Physical Appearance Brown lemurs range in colour from grey to brown, depending on the individual and gender. Distribution Brown lemurs inhabit Madagascar and Comoro Islands. Habitat Brown lemurs live in deciduous forest and closed-canopy forest. Diet Brown lemurs feed on fruit, leaves, sap, flowers, bark, soil, insects, centipedes and millipedes. Before eating millipedes, they salivate on them and roll them in their hands for a few minutes.
Brown lemurs move through the canopy quadrupedally and by leaping.
After a gestation period of 130 days, one to two infants are born between August and October.