Chimpanzee Sights in Uganda

Apes are mammals that first appeared about 85 million years ago, Living in trees in tropical forests. Apes includes gibbons, Orangutans, Gorillas, Chimpanzees and Humans.  Apes and humans differ from all of the other primates in that they lack external tails.The apes and humans are members of the same superfamily, the Hominoidea.  Subsequently, apes are referred to as Old World anthropoid mammals  more specifically a clade of tailless catarrhine. Apes, are the largest living arboreal traditionally forest dwellers, although chimpanzees may range into savanna, and the extinct australopithecines were likely also savanna inhabitants, Humans inhabit almost every terrestrial habitat.  Apes and humans do not have external tails, they do have internal remnants of them at the lower end of their vertebral columns.  These consist of the sacrum and the coccyx bones.

Uganda have a total of about 4,950 chimpanzee Apes and conserved. Chimpanzees and other primates such as monkeys can be seen in while on your safari in Uganda more easily than anywhere else in the world.  Most of the conservation bodies together with the Uganda government have set a side land to save the remaining Apes mainly the chimpanzees in the National parks, forest Reserves, zoo and Ngamba Island sanctuary. And rules have been set up to govern the chimpanzee trekking activity so that their ecosystem is conserved. Among the conservation areas that have become famous chimpanzee tracking destinations Or Chimpanzee Sites in Uganda, As many people come from all parts of the world to trek and see these great apes and more to that, our relatives.  Include:-

National Parks / Wildlife Reserves

The evergreen Rain forest which covers  an area of 766km2 and an altitude ranging between 110 – 1600m. This forest is one of the few remaining expanses that contain both montane and lowland forests forming a never ending forest.  Kibale National Park contains one of the loveliest and most varied tracts of tropical forest in Uganda. This is home to a host of forest wildlife, most famously 13 species of primate including chimpanzee. Forest cover predominates in the northern and central parts of the park on the elevated Fort Portal plateau. Kibale is the highest at the park’s northern tip which stands 1590m above sea level. Northern Kibale is also the wettest area, receiving a mean annual rainfall of up to 1700mm, mostly during March-May and September-November. 

KYAMBURA GORGE IN QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK