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Mandrillus leucophaeus (drill)

Synonyms: Cynocephalus leucophaeus; Simia leucophaea; Simia silvestris; Simia uvea

Wikipedia Abstract

The drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus) is a primate of the family Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys), related to baboons and even more closely to mandrills.
View Wikipedia Record: Mandrillus leucophaeus

Infraspecies

Mandrillus leucophaeus leucophaeus (Mainland Drill)
Mandrillus leucophaeus poensis (Bioko Drill)

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Mandrillus leucophaeus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
48
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.94
EDGE Score: 3.86
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  40.235 lbs (18.25 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  1.702 lbs (772 g)
Female Weight [3]  44.093 lbs (20.00 kg)
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  10 %
Diet - Plants [2]  10 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  30 %
Diet - Vertibrates [2]  10 %
Forages - Scansorial [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  3 years 6 months
Gestation [1]  5 months 29 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  39 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  29 inches (73 cm)
Weaning [1]  1 year 4 months
Habitat Substrate [4]  Arboreal

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Cameroonian Highlands forests Cameroon, Nigeria Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Cross River National Park 1976843 Nigeria      
Oban Group Forest Reserve   Nigeria  
Takamanda Forest Reserve National Park II 167041 Cameroon  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Guinean Forests of West Africa Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Togo Yes

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Loa loa[6]
Paragonimus africanus[6]
Paragonimus uterobilateralis[6]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 5Note on Drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus) Ecology and Conservation Status in Korup National Park, Southwest Cameroon, CHRISTOS ASTARAS, MICHAEL MUHLENBERG, AND MATTHIAS WALTERT, American Journal of Primatology 69:1–7 (2007)
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0