Printable Mandrill Mask

printable mandrill mask for kids

The most colourful primate on Earth - and nothing in the collection quite prepares you for the mandrill! Our printable mandrill mask showcases that extraordinary face - brilliant blue ridges, scarlet nose and golden beard - in all its glory. It's genuinely one of the most spectacular animal faces in existence. Perfect for primates school plays, rainforest classroom projects, World Book Day, birthday parties, and the most dramatically colourful imaginative play going.

The mandrill is the world's largest monkey, and that face is quite simply unlike anything else in the animal kingdom - a mask that absolutely demands attention and always generates fascinated questions from kids. Every mask comes with a full colour version AND a black and white line art version for colouring in.

5 Interesting Facts About Mandrills!

  • The mandrill is the world's largest monkey - males can weigh up to 37kg and stand nearly a metre tall, making them significantly bigger than most people expect a monkey to be.
  • That extraordinary facial colouring isn't paint - it's bare skin, and the intensity of the blue and red deepens when the mandrill is excited or showing dominance. The brighter the face, the higher the status.
  • Mandrills have cheek pouches like hamsters - they stuff food into them while foraging to carry back to a safe spot to eat, allowing them to collect large amounts of food quickly.
  • They live in groups called hordes that can number in the hundreds - one of the largest social groups of any primate, moving through the rainforest floor foraging for fruit, seeds, fungi and small animals.
  • Despite their ferocious appearance, mandrills are primarily frugivores - fruit makes up the majority of their diet, with insects, seeds and occasionally small vertebrates making up the rest.