The Monkey with a Bright Blue Bottom

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Individual voices are more similar among related animals, but unrelated mandrills can have similar voices if they regularly interact. These gestures are usually performed by dominant individuals towards subordinates, who respond with bared teeth grimaces, signaling fear and aggression. Males have a 70–95cm (28–37in) head-body length and weigh 19–30kg (42–66lb) while females have a 55–70cm (22–28in) head-body length and weigh 10–15kg (22–33lb). They, like us humans, have the need for some kind of padding on the rear end so they can sit down comfortably for long periods of time. Species with small ranges like the lesula can move from vulnerable to seriously endangered over the course of just a few years.

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They can realize butts when they see one because they know that when their females get red and swollen butts, it means it is time for mating. The female butt swells enormously and becomes a very bright red when in season, but on regular days the male Celebes have a much redder butt. The lesula's range is within the Tshuapa–Lomami–Lualaba Conservation Landscape, and the Lomami National Park has been proposed to protect this and other species in the region. In the picture above, both the red and blue photons bounce (scatter) 4 times while they are penetrating the skin.The mandrill is the largest non-ape primate, and also arguably the most colorful, with a trademark bright red and blue nose and a frankly gorgeous rainbow-colored butt. The monkey appears to eat fruits and vegetation primarily, and to live both on the ground and in trees. Odontochronologies in male and female mandrills ( Mandrillus sphinx) and the development of dental sexual dimorphism". Over the next two or three months, they develop their adult hair color on the body, limbs and head while the flesh-colored face and snout darken.

Monkey Bright Blue Bottom by Steve Smallman | Goodreads Monkey Bright Blue Bottom by Steve Smallman | Goodreads

Now the crestfallen monkey looks just like a clown, with his red white and blue face (and bright blue bottom) - and to cap it all, all the other animals giggle to themselves whenever he passes by.

Vervet monkeys can survive in tropical rainforest, arid desert, seasonal swamps and high-altitude plains. As a pest species they are demonised, so people see monkeys as a threat to be challenged and exterminated. Extremely complete boffinry detail on the lesula - including highly detailed but perhaps rather off-putting pics of the possibly record-breaking azure buttock area, which as a mainstream publication we have chosen not to republish - can be seen here for free courtesy of online scientific journal PLoS ONE. I started working as an illustrator when I was in my final year at Art College and now, over 28 years later I still haven't got a proper job!