June 11 (UPI) --A mandrill monkey living at the Phoenix Zoo in Arizona has been confirmed as the oldest in the world at the age of 37. The female mandrill, named Nikki, was born the Oregon Zoo on ...

Nikki, the 37-year-old mandrill monkey who resides at Phoenix Zoo, made history as the oldest known mandrill monkey in captivity. She was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records.

On the other side of the spectrum, the mandrill (mandrillus sphinx) is the largest monkey in the world. Native to the forests of west-central Africa, the mandril is considered vulnerable by the ...

A male drill monkey’s colorful rump is a sign of his ... Drill monkeys are close relatives of the mandrill, a better known species sometimes seen in zoos. In The Mandrill: A Case of Extreme ...

One of the largest colobines, the proboscis monkey, spends up to 75% of daylight ... of geladas can surpass 1200 individuals, and mandrill ‘hordes,' which are persistent social units, average ...

But in Chester Zoo, England, one monkey uses tools to give itself a pedicure. Riccardo Pansini and Jan de Ruiter from Durham University watched a 18-year-old mandrill called JC clean his toenails ...

Clearly Simba's not a baboon. But neither is Rafiki. He's a different kind of monkey altogether — a mandrill. And what's more, Rafiki has a long tail, yet in real life mandrills are nearly tailless.

In the 1800s, Jerry the Mandrill was taught to drink and smoke ... Someone who got up and danced chaotically was called ‘monkey drunk’ or as we now call them ‘weekend stag do in Prague ...