No wonder it was once known as the “mandrill baboon”! The mandrill is a truly colorful animal. Its face and rump both display ...

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 opening moments of “The Lion King,” a shamanistic mandrill named Rafiki appears ... golden rays over the African Pride Lands, the animal kingdom awakens. “It’s the circle of ...