Editing Mandrill (section)

==Etymology==
The word ''mandrill'' is derived from the English words ''man'' and ''drill''—the latter meaning {{gloss|[[baboon]]}} or {{gloss|[[ape]]}} and being West African in origin—and dated to 1744.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mandrill|website=[[Online Etymology Dictionary]]|access-date=15 April 2022|url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/mandrill}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Ayto, John|year=2005|title=Word Origins: The Hidden Histories of English Words from A to Z|publisher=A & C Black Publishers Ltd|page=178|isbn=978-0-7136-7498-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Huxley, Thomas Henry|year=1872|title=Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature|publisher=D. Appleton and Company|page=20|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xm4FAQAAIAAJ&dq=Mandrill+etymology&pg=PA20}}</ref> The name appears to have originally referred to [[chimpanzee]]s.<ref>{{cite book|author=Baynes, Thomas Spencer|year=1833|title=The Encyclopaedia Britannica A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature: Volume 15|publisher=University of Michigan|pages=476–477|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xmIhAQAAMAAJ&dq=Mandrill+etymology&pg=PA477}}</ref> The first scholar to record the name for the colorful monkey was [[Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon|Georges-Louis Buffon]] in 1766. It was called the "tufted ape", "great baboon" and "ribbernosed baboon" by [[Thomas Pennant]] in ''A Synopsis of Quadrupeds'' (1771) and ''A History of Quadrupeds'' (1781).{{sfn|Dixson|2015|pp=3–4}}