The head and body of the mandrill reach about 38 inches, the tail 30 inches. |
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. |
The mandrill, C. mormon, has blue ridges on the muzzle, the bridge of the nose being red. |
Almost as odd-looking as the mandrill, though in quite a different way, is the gelada, which is found in Abyssinia. |
One shudders to think of the mental humiliation that is daily experienced by the warthog and the mandrill. |
A mandrill has a better chance of flogging the Eiffel Tower to Bill Gates than I have of getting away with anything, ever. |