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Mandrill Monkey - Male Adult 🐒👀🤯📸
#1 of 100 to a limited NFT collection called “Color - Life’s Natural Beauty” by nspire.photography which has been featured on BBC’s @BBCEarth Instagram account. A 1 of 1 art piece captured in Gabon, Africa.
The largest of the world’s monkeys, mandrills are native to the west coast of Central Africa. These striking primates reside in the tropical rainforests, forested upland slopes, dense secondary forests, and thick bush of southwestern Cameroon, western Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and southwestern Congo. They also live in gallery forests adjacent to savannas, rocky forests, riparian forests, freshwater swamp forests, and stream beds.
In the wild, mandrills live for 20 years. In captivity, this popular zoo inhabitant can live up to 31 years; the longest recorded lifespan for a captive mandrill is 46 years.
Flamboyant is an apt descriptor for this colorful Old World monkey, particularly the male whose colors are more vibrant than those of his female counterpart. This differences in gender coloration within a species is called sexual dichromatism, an aspect of sexual dimorphism which recognizes differences in appearance. Size is another aspect of sexual dimorphism. As noted, male mandrills are considerably larger than females. To point, sexual selection is a strong driver in mandrills. It is his commanding size and vibrant colors, particularly his brightly colored genitals, which allow the male mandrill to confidently declare his identity and virility to attract the female of his species.
Both male and female mandrills have long limbs proportional to their compact bodies, which are covered by a brownish olive-colored fur coat with a paler undercoat, white tufts, red hair patches above the eyes, and a yellow beard. Each has a stubby, upright tail. The canine teeth in males can be more than 2.5 inches (6.5 cm); for females, 0.39 inches (1.0 cm).
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