When a mandrill bares its teeth, it is not threatening to attack, but rather showing a submissive behavior. |
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The head and body of the mandrill reach about 38 inches, the tail 30 inches. |
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On arrival, my butty unlocked the tools and gave me my shovel, sledge and mandrill. |
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A mandrill has a better chance of flogging the Eiffel Tower to Bill Gates than I have of getting away with anything, ever. |
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And Gabon offers less, in that most of the country is thick, green jungle, and you might only catch a glimpse of a mandrill or a gorilla heading in the wrong direction. |
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In the meantime, we meet Voltaire, a wealthy mandrill who lives with his human girlfriend and writes fiery op-eds about animal welfare. |
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It appears that mandrill groups are based on stable matrilines, with female philopatry and dispersing males, as in the majority of cercopithecines. |
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The great apes, gorillas and chimpanzees, form the core of this zone, which is also home to the mandrill baboon, the bongo antelope, and the red river hog. |
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A few years ago, a lateral-thinking zoologist looked into the plight of a captive male mandrill who was in a deep funk and off his food. |
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The rocky great-apes enclosure is constantly surrounded by tittering schoolkids, pointing at the pink and blue posteriors on display in the baboon and mandrill pens. |
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Other long-faced monkeys, especially the mandrill and drill, the gelada, and the Celebes macaque, are sometimes referred to as baboons, but among these only the gelada is closely related. |
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And one, the male, has been nicknamed Handrill — Handrill the mandrill. |
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As an animal behaviourist, he's called in to help the Wales Ape and Monkey Sanctuary in Abercrave re-settle a mandrill brought back to Wales from a zoo in Poland. |
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The Mandrill monkeys have also had a baby which they are rearing themselves while another is pregnant. |
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For FOWA's ten-year anniversary, Microsoft has joined as a FOWA London sponsor, alongside Mandrill, Frosmo and Media Temple. |
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