Wildlife Beyond Gorillas

The silverback is the undisputed centre of a mountain gorilla family group. His grey-backed fur…

Most visitors to Uganda arrive with one goal: gorilla trekking at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.…

The mountain gorilla is one of the most thoroughly studied large mammals on earth, and…

There is a call that defines the soundscape of African water: a high, ringing, yelping…

Most visitors to Uganda arrive with one goal: gorilla trekking at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.…

Most visitors to Uganda arrive with one goal: gorilla trekking at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.…

Most visitors to Uganda arrive with one goal: gorilla trekking at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.…

Most visitors to Uganda arrive with one goal: gorilla trekking at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.…

Every morning before dawn, teams of Uganda Wildlife Authority rangers enter Bwindi Impenetrable National Park…

The standard chimpanzee tracking session in Kibale Forest National Park gives you two to three…

No Uganda wildlife itinerary is complete without a hippo encounter, and no park in Uganda…

There is a moment, well documented in the accounts of birders who experience it, when…

Look up on any forest trail in Bwindi and sooner or later—usually sooner—you will see…

Most visitors to Bwindi come for the gorillas and leave thinking the forest is primarily…

It is the question at the centre of every Uganda itinerary debate: if you must…

Gorillas are not silent animals. They produce a complex repertoire of vocalisations, postural signals, and…

Uganda's national parks are typically experienced during daylight hours — the morning game drive, the…

In the bamboo and mixed montane forests of Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, on the slopes…

The hour you spend with a habituated gorilla family in Bwindi is richer if you…

In every habituated gorilla family you will visit in Bwindi or Mgahinga, there is one…

Intelligence in non-human animals is difficult to define and even more difficult to measure, but…

Every evening, without exception, mountain gorillas build beds. Not burrows, not dens, not fixed sleeping…

Most visitors to Uganda come specifically to see mountain gorillas — the critically endangered population…

Where the Victoria Nile squeezes through a seven-metre gap in the rock and drops 43…