The mandrilltried with his feet to push Andekko off, and uttered scream after scream.
He had hold of the mandrill in such manner that the latter could not bite him.
The mandrillwas dead, but poor Andekko was a terrible sight.
But the mandrill lay underneath him on the ground, the blood flowing from his neck profusely.
The mandrillhas pouches on the sides of his cheeks, and callosities on his posteriors.
Illustration: 0153] "What is the difference between a mandrill and an ordinary monkey?
A full grown mandrillis about, five feet high when standing erect, and his head is very large in proportion to his body.
In a state of nature his great strength and malicious character render the Mandrill a truly formidable animal.
So you see that altogether a grown-up male mandrill is a very odd-looking creature.
In the Natural History Museum, at South Kensington, London, is the skin of a mandrill which lived for some years in that city in the earlier part of the nineteenth century.
It is a much smaller animal, too, and looks, on the whole, very much like a mandrill while it is quite young.
Almost all monkeys are subject at times to terrible fits of passion, but the mandrill seems to be the worst tempered of all.
It sounds impossible, yet the mandrill has been known to do so.
There is another baboon called the drill, which is not unlike the mandrill in many respects, but the swellings on its face are not nearly as large, and they remain black all through its life.
The female mandrill has much smaller swellings on her face.
Rhesus monkey; but when a young drill and mandrill were placed in the cage, she seemed to perceive that these monkeys, though distinct species, were her nearer relatives, for she at once rejected the Rhesus and adopted both of them.
No other member in the whole class of mammals is coloured in so extraordinary a manner as the adult male mandrill (C.
The young mandrill ceased spontaneously after a time to act in this manner towards his master, von Fischer, but continued to do so towards persons who were strangers and to new monkeys.
We may infer from what we see of the variation of animals under domestication, that the above several ornaments of the mandrill were gradually acquired by one individual varying a little in one way, and another individual in another way.
In this article there is an account of the behaviour of a young male mandrill when he first beheld himself in a looking-glass, and it is added, that after a time he turned round and presented his red hinder end to the glass.
He finds that not only themandrill (Cynocephalus mormon) but the drill (C.
The mandrill and drill, which have their hinder ends especially ornamented, display it even whilst quite young, more frequently and more ostentatiously than do the other kinds.
This likewise holds good with the mandrill and Rhesus, in which the face and the posterior parts of the body are brilliantly coloured in one sex alone.
The male mandrill has not only the hinder end of his body, but his face gorgeously coloured and marked with oblique ridges, a yellow beard, and other ornaments.
There are two species living in Western Africa which are known as the Mandrill and the Drill.
The Mandrill has a very peculiar appearance when the colors of its face are bright.
The Drill is very much like the Mandrill except that its face is completely black instead of being striped with color; and it also inhabits Guinea.
The Mandrill presents a middle condition, the arms and legs being nearly equal in length, and both being shorter than the spinal column; while hand and foot have nearly the same proportions to one another and to the spine, as in Man.
In one of the early lathes which he contrived and made, the mandrill was nine inches in diameter; it was driven by wheel-gearing like a crane motion, and adapted to different speeds.
When the Mandrill is in any way excited, the brilliantly-coloured naked parts of the skin are said to become still more vividly coloured.
Rhesus monkey; but when a young drill and mandrill were placed in the cage she seemed to perceive that these monkeys, though distinct species, were her nearer relatives, for she at once rejected the Rhesus and adopted both of them.
No other member of the whole class of mammals is coloured in so extraordinary a manner as the adult malemandrill (Cynocephalus mormon).
This likewise holds good with the Mandrill and Rhesus, in which the face and the posterior parts of the body are brilliantly coloured in one sex alone.
Let's all go to the Zoo, and see if the blue-faced mandrill reminds him of a certain royal personage or not.
As a whole, themandrill is characterized by heaviness of body, stoutness and strength of limb, and exceeding shortness of tail, which is a mere stump, not 2 in.
The mandrill is a native of West Africa, where he is much dreaded by the negroes.
This story of the mandrill may excuse this pendant of an episode.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mandrill" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
