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media type="custom" key="21173568" Kingdom: Animalia Diet: Omnivore Average Life Spam: 20 years Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Genus: Mandrillus

Male Mandrill and Their Size

Mandrills are the most colourful primates the coloration of the animal is more pronounced in dominant adult males. Both sexes have chest glands these, too, are more prominent in dominant adult males. Males also have longer canines than females, with an average of 4.5 cm. Male Mandrills can weigh 19-37 kg but exceptionally large male mandrills can weigh up to 57kgs. The average male is 75-95 cms long and 45-55cms on all fours. The male mandrill is also the heaviest monkey in the whole world and can survive up to 31 years in captivity.

Female Mandrills and Their Size

Female mandrills facial collours are less bright and prominent than male male mandrills but they are still just as extravagent. Females have shorter canines than males with the average of 1.0 cm they are also smaller in length their average height being 55-66. Female mandrills are alsio significantly lighter in weight than male mandrills weighing 10-15 kg (almost half as much as males). Females reach sexual maturity at the age of 3.5 years.

Young Mandrills and Their Size

Diet

The mandrill is an omnivore. It usually consumes plants and eats over a hundred species. It prefers to eat fruit but will also eat leaves, lianas, bark, stems, and fibers. It also consumes mushrooms and soil. With animals, mandrills mostly eat invertebrates, particularly ants, beetles, termites, crickets, spiders, snails, and scorpions. It will also eat eggs, or even vertebrates such as birds, tortoises, frogs, porcupines, rats, and shrews,

Habitat

Mandrills prefer to live in tropical rainforests and forest-savannas. They also live in gallery forests adjacent to savannas, as well as rocky forests, riparian forests, cultivated areas and flooded forests and stream beds. Mandrills will cross grass areas within their forest habitats. They are mainly found in southern Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Congo.

Breeding Female mandrills reach sexual maturity at the age of 3.5 years