Drill+Period+5

Hannah Johnson Caroline Butler
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Questions:

1. Where does your animal live, and what are its characteristics?

A. Locate your animal’s habitat. (Where does it live? Does it migrate?) • **The Drill lives in tropical rainforests, mature lowland, coastal and riverine. • Tropical rainforests. • They are considered forest baboons. • They are confined to the African tropical forests. western Africa • They have a very restricted range. • Most live from the cross river in Nigeria to the sanaga river in Cameroon. Some live on the island of Bioko. • Head-body length: 70 cm • The drill is never found outside the forest, but it rarely climbs trees. (Except to sleep.)**

B. Include all subspecies or varieties of your animal. • **Mandrills and baboons are subspecies of the Drill. • It is from the mandrillus. • Also some other subspecies are the mainland drill (M. l. leucophaeus) and the Bioko drill (M. l. poensis) • Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Mammalia Order Primates Family Cercopithecidae Genus Mandrillus**

Identify at least 10 characteristics that will give an in-depth, accurate description of your animal. • The males can grow up to twice the size of females. • Their coat is olive brown with a pale underside. They have a black face and an extended muzzle. • The males have pink and lilac colored butts. • When they are excited these colors darken. • There is a white ruff around the head of drills. • A grown male is up to 90 cm. in length. • They have a stumpy tail • They travel in large groups • When a female is pregnant her butt area becomes red. • The mandrill has such large cheeks that it can save food for later • They have huge canine teeth. • The life span is up to 40 years. • If they are upset, he will beat the ground and they are very strong.** 2. Where and why is your animal endangered?
 * • The mandrill eats fruits, seeds, fungi, seeds, eggs, frogs, insects, and roots in the tropical forests., They feed on anything edible, they are omnivores.

Locate where it is endangered (might not be endangered in all its habitats) • **The drill is endangered in the mature rainforests of Africa that are becoming destroyed.**

Identify the factors, environmental and/or anthropogenic (caused by man) that cause it to be endangered • Also they are hunted very often, they are an important income for many people. • They are noisy and brightly colored, so they are an easy target.**
 * • Man is tearing down their habitat for building.

Provide statistics and other facts related to its endangerment • **There are over 40 drills in captivity around the world, where they are trying to bread them. That may stop them from going extinct. • It was listed endangered in 1995. • It is listed on CITES- Convention of International Trade, prohibiting national trade of drills. • The island of Bioko has more endangered primates than anywhere else in Africa. • They are sold for bushmeat.**

3. Where is your animal in captivity and/or conserved?

Locate at least two zoos and/or conservation centers where the animal is held. • Breeding Centre in Nigeria- they aim to rehabilitate young orphaned drills. • Atlanta zoo • San Diego zoo • Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program (BBPP)**
 * • Fauna and Flora International

4. What is being done to restore your animal’s populations? Where is it being done?

Locate where research is done on your animal and where efforts are underway to conserve its population (Note: It may be that this is done at the same location(s) you identified in #3) • Breeding Centre in Nigeria**
 * • Fauna and flora International

Identify the experts, leaders, and/or groups guiding the conservation • **Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)- The drills came onto this list in 1995 because of taxonomic uniqueness. • BBPP has Patrol teams that watch for hunters, Bushmeat Market Analysis who catalogues the animals in the market, annual Caldera Expedition who conduct reeasearsh on how many primates- dills are on the island of Bioko. They provide info on the health and status of monkeys, ecotourism and study abroad where people can see how we affect biodiversity, and awareness campaigns where basically they raise awareness about endangered animals- drills.**


 * Photos**

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thesullys/155895641/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/nilssh/417853798/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/simontaylor/265896757/sizes/s/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gammateilchen/181569052/sizes/s/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/valerierenee/2159889523/sizes/s/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ucumari/486889870/sizes/s/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ucumari/482741260/sizes/s/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdd/1348551760/sizes/s/

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xRQaWO3tyuU
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Bibliography (All Resources Used)**

The variety of life, Colin Tudge • Tropical Forests, Peter D. More [|• www.arkive.org] • http://ww.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-mandrill.html • http://www.bioko.org/wildlife/drill.asp • http://www.zooatlanta.org/animals_animal_news.htm http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/idp/idp/entry/375 http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdd/1348551760/sizes/s/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ucumari/482741260/sizes/s/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ucumari/486889870/sizes/s/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/valerierenee/2159889523/sizes/s/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/gammateilchen/181569052/sizes/s/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/simontaylor/265896757/sizes/s/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/nilssh/417853798/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/thesullys/155895641/