Males of this species are well known for their brightly colored face, buttocks, and genitals. Females are smaller and less colorful.
They spend most of the day foraging on the ground in open areas, eating fruit, buds, leaves, insects, and fungi.
At night or when threatened, they retreat to the forest canopy.
Social primates, mandrills are typically found in groups of twenty to forty, usually led by an older male.
The young are often seen riding on the mother's back or clinging to the fur on her belly.
Changes in land use and hunting threaten the species.
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