Both the mandrill and the drill were once classified as baboons in the genus Papio. In 1989, taxonomists moved them into their own genus, Mandrillus. There are six baboon species: Mandrills live ...

Probably the most famous mandrill in popular culture, Rafiki from “The Lion King”, even sports baboon-like traits otherwise ...

Clearly Simba's not a baboon. But neither is Rafiki. He's a different kind of monkey altogether — a mandrill. And what's more, Rafiki has a long tail, yet in real life mandrills are nearly tailless.