Interesting features about Chimpanzees in Uganda

Chimpanzees in Kibale National Park have greatly attracted many chimpanzee tracking safaris which have been carried out by tourists from all over the country. Chimpanzees are characterised with noisy,

curious, intelligent and social behaviours, the chimpanzee is the mammal most like a human. Chimpanzees fascinate humans and are favourites both in zoos and the wild.

Three subspecies of common chimpanzees have greatly attracted many chimpanzee trekking safaris and they are distributed across the forest zone of Africa from Guinea to western Tanzania and Uganda. Another species of chimpanzees, the bonobo (Pan Paniscus), is found exclusively in central Democratic Republic of Congo. In East Africa the chimpanzee is found in the wild in Tanzania and Uganda but only in captivity in Kenya. Gombe National Park in Tanzania is the first park in Africa specifically created for chimpanzees.

A chimpanzee safari to Kibale National Park will provide you with adequate information about chimpanzee personal characteristics like a thick body with long arms, short legs and no tail. Much of the body is covered with long black hair, but the face, ears, fingers and toes are bare. They have hands that can grip firmly, allowing them to pick up objects. The discovery that they used "tools" for certain purposes surprised the world.

Chimps are mainly found in rain forests and wet savannas. While they spend equal time on land and in trees, they do most of their feeding and sleeping in trees. Chimps live in groups called troops, of some 30 to 80 individuals. These large groups are made up of smaller, very flexible groups of just a few animals, perhaps all females, all males or a mixed group.

Take a chimpanzee trek and watch chimps which sometimes chew leaves to make them absorbent and then use them as a sponge, dipping them in water and sucking out the moisture. They also use grass stems or twigs as tools, poking them into termite or ant nests and eating the insects that cling to them. They are able to wedge nuts between the roots of a tree and break the shells open with a stone.

It’s worth for you to take a chimpanzee safari to Kibale National Park in order to explore more about the mighty chimpanzees.

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