My friend Dan brings up Mandrills a lot. Well, not "a lot" but if you consider how many conversations the average person has about Mandrills in their life the fact that I had several with Dan during a 2-3 year period is impressive.
I think he brings them up for two reasons. One, because they are freaking awesome. There aren't many other mammals that brightly colored and very few other mammals have large concentrations of color in their face; plus as an ape they have a lot of structural similarities to humans. Two, I think he likes to bring them up because people often mistakenly refer to them as Baboons and he wants to correct them. Which, interestingly enough, is how I first learned of his passion for Mandrills. Without Dan I'd probably still just think they were Baboons.
I saw him mention them on facebook tonight so this one's for you Dan Ciurczak!
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