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It is only to fully adult males that this description applies. 

 The female is of much smaller size, and of more slender make ; 

 and, though the general tone of the hairy parts of the body is 

 the same, the prominences, furrows, and colouring of the face are 

 very much less marked. The young males have black faces. At 

 the age of three the blue of the cheeks begins to appear, but it is 

 not until they are about five, when they cut their great canine 

 teeth, that they acquire the characteristic red of the end of the 

 nose. 



The Mandrills, especially the old males, are remarkable for the 

 ferocity of their disposition, as well as for other disagreeable quali- 

 ties, which are fully described in Cuvier's account of the animal in 



Fig. 340. — The Yellow Baboon (Cynocephalus babuin). From Archives dit Museum, 



vol. ii. pi. 34. 



La M&nagerie du Musiwm d'Histoire Natv/relle (1801), but when 

 young they can easily be tamed. Like the rest of the Baboons, 

 they appear to be rather indiscriminate eaters, feeding upon fruit, 

 roots, reptiles, insects, scorpions, etc., and inhabit open rocky 

 ground rather than forests. Not much is known of the Mandrill's 

 habits in the wild state, nor of the exact limits of its geographical 

 distribution. The specimens brought to Europe all come from the 

 west coast of tropical Africa, from Guinea to the Gaboon. 



An allied species, the Drill (<.'. leurupjidiis), which resembles the 

 Mandrill in size, general proportions, and shortness of tail, but 

 wants the bright colouring of the face which makes that animal so 

 remarkable, inhabits the same district. Other well-known species 

 are the Yellow Baboon (C. babuin), of West Africa (Fig. 345) ; the 

 Arabian Baboon (C. hamadryas), of Arabia and Abyssinia ; and the 

 Anubis Baboon (<'. anubis), of West Africa. 



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