Talk:Mandrill

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Contents 1 Popular Culture 2 Terrestrial - it does'nt live in water 3 Recently 4 Groups of up to 800 individuals?

[edit] Popular Culture

Should a segment mentioning the Mandrill in Popular Culture be added? One example that comes to mind is Rafiki from the Lion King —The preceding unsigned comment was added by MelicansMatkin (talk • contribs) .

Also mandrills are mentioned in the drugs episode of Brasseye as carriers of drugs for dealers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.243.220.22 (talk) 17:48, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Terrestrial - it does'nt live in water

The Mandrill is of course a terrestrial mammal, the sentence about its feeding habits needs to be altered to say something like "ground-dwelling" instead of "terrestrial". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.26.201.121 (talk • contribs) .

Terrestrial means ground-dwelling, in this context, as opposed to aquatic. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:40, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Recently

How recently has it been classed as separate from baboons? Aeronox 13:44, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Groups of up to 800 individuals?

This passage sounds extremely dubious to me. I cannot imagine a primate living in a group with 800 individuals unless it is in captivity. I'm going to remove the passage until someone either corrects it or finds a reliable source.- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg | Talk 12:49, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Now it says that the largest group ever recorded was 1300. According to [[1]], groups range from 345-850, which would make the original claim accurate, and the new "largest group recorded" at least plausable. A quick google searchs finds the claim of 1300 mentioned in a book here: [[2]] 99.246.109.131 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 14:22, 5 April 2008 (UTC)