This is itself a challenging exercise. There is a lot to see and to study the environment around the chimps. One wonders, how close these animals are to man. Chimps share 98.4% DNA with humans and are known to live up to about 50 years.

They live in a very organized society of families. Each family has a dominant male Alpha that provides protection and direction. The young ones and the rest in the family have to adhere to strict rules else they are disciplined by the big boss or the dominant male.
Most of the Chimpanzees are found in Kibale forest National park covers 795 square kilometers of Tropical Forest. This is a home of 13 species of Primates including chimpanzees

Kibale National Park is Primatologist’s dream. It hosts a population of more than 1000 Chimpanzees, of which 80 strong community has been habituated to Tourists. Visitors as well as half dozen, readily observed monkeys species. Like Red Colobus, black & white colobus and the handsome L’ Hoest’s Monkey.
For Tourists and Primatologists, there is accommodation available for those who want to stay and enjoy Nature. Lodges like Primate Lodge, Ndali Lodge, Kanyanchu Homestead, Nyinabulitwa Lodge and some others in the area.

Habits:
Among the noisiest and most intelligent of wild animals. Spend equal time in trees and on land. Live in troops of 30 to 80 individuals.

Diet:
Fruits, leaves and occasionally eat meat. They hunt and eat blue, red tailed colobus monkeys.

Gestation:
8 months to which they give birth to 1 baby.  Sexual maturity at 8 – 10 years.

Life Span:
50 years.

Population in Uganda:
5000 most of it in Kibale Forest, Budongo, Maramagambo areas.

N.B: Contact us for Chimp tracking