While this image is sharp and clear, I don't think the composition works and as mentioned in other posts it leads to a confusion about exactly what we are looking at. The mandrill facing us is nice, great expressive pose, nice sharpness (perhaps oversharpened a tad), but the mandrill on the right is distracting because all we see is an ear and what looks like an eye (only upon close examination). We do not see this mandrill's face or hands, in fact if it wasn't for the ear in the extreme upper right of the frame, all we would recognize is a blob of fur. I believe all of this could have been remedied by simply not cropping so tight or by cropping out the mandrill on the right and focusing solely on the main subject. Another thing that bothers me is the lack of definition between the two individuals; it seems as if their fur simply blends together and you are left wondering where one ends and the other begins. In the end, after looking at it for a while, the whole image reminds me of well done CGI rather than a photograph. Perhaps reducing the sharpness a notch and adding a little texture to the fur would help alleviate this "plastic" look.
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