Wildlife Beyond Gorillas

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…

The gorilla trekking experience feels spontaneous — you set out into the forest and at…

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…

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is home to a population of African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis)…

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

Gorillas produce a communication system of at least 25 distinct vocalizations — including the chest…

Uganda's national parks are typically experienced during daylight hours — morning game drives, afternoon boat…

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

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

In every habituated gorilla family you visit in Bwindi or Mgahinga, one animal organises everything…

Intelligence in non-human animals is difficult to define and even more difficult to measure without…

Every evening, without exception, mountain gorillas build beds — freshly constructed nests made from bent…

Most visitors to Uganda come specifically to see mountain gorillas — the approximately 1,100 Gorilla…

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

Most visitors come to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park for the gorillas and leave talking about…

The mountain gorilla's trajectory from fewer than 250 individuals in the early 1980s to over…

Mgahinga Gorilla National Park occupies Uganda's share of the Virunga volcanic chain — eight volcanoes…

Kibale Forest National Park in western Uganda holds the highest density of primates of any…

A mountain gorilla silverback consumes up to 35 kilograms of fresh plant material every day…