Mandrill
Amazing fact
Mandrills can store food in cheek pouches inside their mouths and eat it later.
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Mandrills can store food in cheek pouches inside their mouths and eat it later.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Mandrill
- Scientific name
- Mandrillus sphinx
- Japanese name
- マンドリル
- Group
- Land mammals
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Primates
- Family
- Cercopithecidae
- Genus
- Mandrillus
It is a monkey that lives deep in the tropical rainforests of western Africa, from Cameroon to Gabon.
A male's face has a red stripe down the nose with blue on both sides, and it also has a yellow beard.
In the dark forest, the bright rump of the male that leads the group is said to act as a marker the others can follow.
How the Mandrill lives
They live on the ground by day and sleep in trees at night. Males forage on the ground, while females and youngsters find food in trees. In the forest, they keep in contact with grunting calls.
University of Michigan Animal Diversity WebSan Diego ZooBasic data
- Size
- Head and body length: 80–91 cm日本平動物園
- Weight
- 11–30 kg日本平動物園
- Diet
- Fruit, seeds, roots, mushrooms and small animals日本平動物園
- Range
- West Africa, from Cameroon to Gabon日本モンキーセンター
Where the Mandrill has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- マンドリル
- 简体中文
- 山魈
- 繁體中文
- 山魈屬
- 한국어
- 맨드릴
- Español
- Mandril
- Français
- Mandrill
- Deutsch
- Mandrill
- Português (Brasil)
- Mandril
- Italiano
- Mandrillo
- العربية
- ميمون أبو الهول
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Encege
- Русский
- Мандрил
- Türkçe
- Mandril
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 日本モンキーセンター — マンドリルChecked: 2026-11-03
- 日本平動物園 — マンドリルChecked: 2026-11-03
- University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web — Mandrillus sphinxChecked: 2026-11-03
- San Diego Zoo — MandrillChecked: 2026-11-03
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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