Probably the most famous mandrill in popular culture, Rafiki from “The Lion King”, even sports baboon-like traits otherwise ...

Drills are shy, live in only one small, remote area of Africa, and their faces aren’t as colorful as their cousin the mandrill, whose blue-and-red mugs make them instantly recognizable.

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.

Riccardo Pansini and Jan de Ruiter from Durham University watched a 18-year-old mandrill called JC clean his toenails out using small splinters. He made them himself, fashioning them from wood ...