Ebony+B

media type="custom" key="21172404"Explorer - Ebony B



** Status: ** Endangered
====** Male: ** Adult males are brightly coloured with vivid red noses, enlarged blue-ridged cheeks and golden beard make them very distinctive. This facial colouring and the broad, pink and mauve hindquarters are thought to signify status within the group. One adult male will be the leader of about a group of fifteen, consisting of females and young.====

** Female: ** Th e females are less brightly coloured than the adult males except when in season. At this time they have brilliantly coloured swellings on their rumps.
====** Young: ** The young Mandrill is born with pink skin and black fur which it keeps for its first 2 months. They are born with their eyes open and are strong enough to be able to cling to their mother's belly immediately. A dolescent males are less brightly coloured than the adult males. ====

====** size: ** The length of the male is about 32 inches the female is about 22 inches. The weight of the birth is around 1 to 2 pounds (0.4 to 0.9 kilograms) and the weight of a full grown mandrill for a male is about 55 pounds (25 kilograms) and the female is about 25 pounds (11.5 kilograms). Male mandrills are the heaviest monkey in the world.====


 * Breeding: ** After a gestation period of between 6 and 7 months, Mandrills give birth to 1 infant. Mandrills mate throughout the year, however young are mainly born between January and April. They reach sexual maturity at about 5 years of age and the inter birth interval is approximately 13 - 14 months.

====** Habitat: ** Mandrills are found in the dense rain forests, coastal forests and sometimes the savannah areas of West Central Africa. During the day Mandrills will spend most of their time on the forest floor, but at night they will sleep up in the trees for safety. The zoo tries to imitate the conditions and habitat that the Mandrills experience in the wild. However, this can not be replicated exactly. for example there aren't humans in the rain forest, and there would be all different animals in the rain forest but in the zoo there are no different animals and the zoo is not realy an rain fores.====


 * Feeding: ** Mandrills eat fruits, leaves, roots, seeds. insects, eggs and small animals.

====** SOCIAL BEHAVIOR: **The mandrill has a unimalesocial system, with the leader male receiving most of the copulations. These small groups come together with other groups to form troops of up to 250 individuals, but sometimes a group does not form a troop with other one-male groups.====

====** Conclusion: ** I found the mandrills very interesting because they are very colourful and dongerous. Mandrills have sharp teeth, colourful noses and they are half of humans. They mite look friendly but really thay are just very cool and deadly.====