The red-fronted brown lemur is a tree-dwelling lemur from Madagascar that mainly eats fruit and leaves.
Males are grey to grey-brown and females are reddish brown. Both sexes have pale patches above the eyes, and males have a reddish crown.
At Kirindy Forest in western Madagascar, researchers observed departures by four groups of red-fronted brown lemurs from April to September 2014. The study site covered 60 hectares of dry, semi-deciduous forest. Researchers followed 31 marked animals and recorded who began moving, where groupmates were, and when they joined.
Across 167 successful group movements, lemurs tended to follow animals with stronger social bonds and those closer to them at departure. Adult females appeared more often at the front, juveniles in the centre, and adult males at the rear. The authors found that age and sex shaped travel order alongside proximity and affiliative relationships.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
At the 60-hectare dry, semi-deciduous forest site in Kirindy, western Madagascar, researchers followed four groups of 31 red-fronted brown lemurs during April–September 2014 and recorded 167 group movements. Individuals with stronger social bonds and those nearer the initiator tended to follow sooner. Adult females were more often at the front, juveniles in the centre, and males at the rear. The site lies within a forestry concession, and the observations describe group travel at this field location.