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Mandrill   Listen
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mandrill  n.  (Zool.) A large West African baboon (Papio sphinx syn. Mandrillus sphinx, formerly Cynocephalus mormon syn. Papio mormon). The adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red. It is an endangered species.






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"Mandrill" Quotes from Famous Books



... whom satirical gentlemen with a turn for zoological comparisons, are greatly indebted); the ourang-outan, with his young, from Borneo; the presbytes, dusky and starred, from Singapore, Malacca, and Borneo; and the drill and mandrill, from Africa. The Monkeys of the New World are grouped in six cases (12-18). Herein the visitor should particularly notice the curious spider monkeys, from Brazil and Bolivia: the negro monkey; the ...
— How to See the British Museum in Four Visits • W. Blanchard Jerrold



Words linked to "Mandrill" :   Mandrillus sphinx, Mandrillus, genus Mandrillus, baboon



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