What is a Drill Monkey?

The drill monkey is one of the least well-known primates in Africa.  Found only from the Cross River in Nigeria to the Sanaga River in Cameroon, they inhabit an area roughly the size of Switzerland, with possibly fewer than 3,000 left in the wild.

No one has been able to observe wild drills well in their dense forest habitat, so our knowledge of them is limited.  Most of what is know comes from zoos and from a drill rehabilitation and breeding center in Nigeria known as Pandrillus.  This sanctuary rescues drills from the illegal trade in bushmeat and wildlife and places them in large social groups in natural, forest enclosures in the Afi Mountains of Nigeria.