How to Use mandrill in a Sentence

mandrill

noun

• The devil and the mandrill try to kiss, in costume, which is weirder still.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2021
• The ride sees guests sitting in the arms of a mandrill while dodging jungle hazards before rocketing to the summit of the 55ft tall Jaguar Shrine – and then travelling the track backwards.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 14 May 2023
• The old mandrill has completely lost his walking staff/weapon in the beginning of the movie and instead has to rely on red roots to create a powder to smear on Simba’s head.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 23 July 2019
• And one obvious question remains: why would a mandrill need to clean under its toenails?
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2011
• Though there are tiny apes (the gibbon, at under 20 pounds) and large monkeys (the mandrill, up to 80 pounds), apes are generally larger and require a lot more calories.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2019
• Baby mandrills nurse for anywhere from six to 12 months and remain close to their mothers even after weaning, according to the release.
  — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Feb. 2024
• While this male mandrill may look unfriendly, mandrills are social animals that live in large groups in Africa's rainforests.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• According to a description of the ride, Mandrill Mayhem will sweep visitors around World of Jumanji in the arms of a mandrill while dodging hazards of the jungle.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 18 Jan. 2023
• There’s a scarecrow and a panda, a devil woman and a mandrill — that’s a primate, for those keeping track — and many more, including some guy whose skull has been peeled off to reveal he’s just an oversized brain.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2021
• Milly, for example, was second from bottom in the mandrill pecking order.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2011
• As Rafiki, the mandrill who is healer, sage and shaman, Zama sings in a powerful voice, gives Simba a crucial pep talk and pulls off several delightful comic bits.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2020
• Its first contestant, a former pro-volleyball player masked as a mandrill, provides an answer.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2021
• Rafiki, in the film a male mandrill (often referred to as a baboon), became female for the stage version; Nala, a childhood friend of Simba, was made more forceful, and the strength and centrality of lionesses to the pride was emphasized.
  — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
• Nikki turned 37 in January, even though mandrill monkeys typically do not live past their early twenties, according to the zoo.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 16 June 2024
• Phoenix Zoo's beloved mandrill Nikki is known by staff and visitors for her strong, independent and dominant attitude.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 16 June 2024
• The attention to detail is exquisite, from Timon’s jittery hands and random scratching fits to the water droplets hanging off the whiskers of wise mandrill Rafiki (John Kani) during a torrential rainstorm.
  — Brian Truitt, Detroit Free Press, 1 July 2019
• At the other extreme, mandrill monkeys of western Africa live in hordes of several hundred individuals.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2019
• One stick held mandrill feces full of parasites, another mostly parasite-free poop.
  — National Geographic, 18 Apr. 2017
• Herds of angry ostriches and mandrills are added for danger, even though the special effects are hardly seamless, often looking jerky and manipulated at key moments.
  — Mark Kennedy, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2019
• The mandrills could detect infection status based on smell alone: mandrills presented with two bamboo stalks rubbed in feces strongly avoided a stalk rubbed with droppings from another mandrill that had lots of parasites.
  — Scientific American, 1 July 2020
• The mandrills could detect infection status based on smell alone: mandrills presented with two bamboo stalks rubbed in feces strongly avoided a stalk rubbed with droppings from another mandrill that had lots of parasites.
  — Scientific American, 1 July 2020
• The living animals seized included sacred ibises, white-faced capuchins, tortoises and Burmese pythons, while the 28 dead animals included an alligator, a mandrill and a green-winged macaw, according to a search warrant.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
• Nikki, Victoria's half-sister, is the oldest mandrill in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums population.
  — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2022
• Fortunately, in mandrills as in humans, social avoidance generally doesn’t last forever.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 13 Apr. 2017
• After taking swabs from mandrill sternal glands, researchers genotyped each sample to determine the monkey's major histocompatibility complex (MHC)--a unique genetic signature related to the animal's immune system.
  — Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2010

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