Drill (animal)

Drill
Male at Limbe Wildlife Centre, Cameroon
Female with infant at Tierpark Hellabrunn in Munich, Germany
CITES Appendix I (CITES)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Mandrillus
Species:
M. leucophaeus
Binomial name
Mandrillus leucophaeus
(F. Cuvier, 1807)
Subspecies

M. l. leucophaeus
M. l. poensis

Drill range

The drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus) is a primate of the family Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys), related to baboons and even more closely to mandrills.

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