Le mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) est un singe de grande taille qui vit dans les forêts pluviales et les plateaux du Cameroun, du Gabon, de Guinée équatoriale et du Congo. Doté d'une fourrure qui oscille entre le vert olive et le gris foncé et d'un ventre blanc, ce singe a des couleurs très distinctives sur le visage. Une longue bande rose lui descend sur le milieu du museau jusqu'aux narines, avec des touches de bleu de chaque côté. Il a également une barbe jaune.
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Animal Facts
The mandrill is the largest monkey species in the world.
A group of mandrills is called a 'horde'; a horde can include up to 1300 individuals. Female mandrills live in family groups and all help each other with raising infants.
Mandrills have large cheek pouches that they store food in, often hiding food from their group mates to eat it in peace later.
The bright colours of a male mandrill's face and hindquarters are caused by testosterone and indicate the male's dominance level.
In 'The Descent of Man', Charles Darwin wrote that 'no other member in the whole class of mammals is coloured in so extraordinary a manner as the adult male mandrill'.