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The mandrill has a stocky body with a large head and muzzle, as well as a short and stumpy tail. [19] The limbs are evenly sized and the fingers and toes are more elongated than those in baboons, [20] with a more opposable big toe on the feet. [21] The mandrill is the most sexually dimorphic primate, [22] and it is the largest monkey. [23]
Mandrills and baboons are monkeys; the rest of the species on this list are apes. Typically, Old World monkeys (paleotropical) are larger than New World monkeys (neotropical); the reasons for this are not entirely understood but several hypotheses have been generated. [3]
The drill is a short-tailed monkey up to 70 cm (28 in) long, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacks the bright blue and red on the face of that species. It has high sexual dimorphism in weight, with males weighing up to 20 kg (44 lb) and females up to 12.5 kg (28 lb). [4] A close-up of face. The body is overall a dark grey-brown.
Mandrillus is a genus of large Old World monkeys distributed throughout central and southern Africa, consisting of two species: M. sphinx and M. leucophaeus, the mandrill and drill, respectively. [4] Mandrillus, originally placed under the genus Papio as a type of baboon, is closely related to the genus Cercocebus. [5]
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Rafiki (voiced by Robert Guillaume in most appearances prior to his death in 2017; Khary Payton in The Lion Guard and John Kani in the 2019 film (as elderly) and Kagiso Lediga in Mufasa: The Lion King (as younger)), whose name means "friend" in Swahili, is a West African-accented mandrill with an unnaturally long tail like a baboon.
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These baboons intentionally dropped stones over cliffs. [73] Researchers have seen other types of tool use such as raking with tools and the use of barrels to climb in baboons. [74] Scientists have observed mandrills to modify and then use tools within captive environments. [28]