Tag: primates
Vervet Monkey
The vervet monkey is a black-faced primate that ranges in size from medium to giant and can be found in four different subspecies ...
The mountain gorilla
Uganda is home to one species of gorilla, and that species is the critically endangered mountain gorilla. On the slopes of the Vir...
The Red-Tailed monkey
In Uganda, the red-tailed monkey is one of the most common guenom primate species, with numbers of up to 60 individuals per square...
Red Colobus
The Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary is a popular place for people in Uganda to see red colobus monkeys. It is close to Kibale Forest Nati...
Patas monkey
On a safari game drive in Kidepo Valley and Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda, you may spot the patas monkey. Because they l...
L'Hoest's Monkey
Semi-terrestrial L'Hoest's monkeys only live in lowland, submontane, and montane forests along the Albertine Rift in eastern DRC a...
Grey-cheeked Mangabey
The grey-cheeked mangabey (Lophocebus albigena) is a tiny, hairy monkey that is greyish black in colour. The Kibale National Park ...
Golden Monkey
The Virunga Mountains in Central Africa are home to the golden monkey, an extinct member of the Old-World monkey family. Only in U...
De Brazza’s monkey
De Brazza's monkey is a magnificent thickset guenon with a short tail, a hairy face with a reddish-brown patch around its eyes, a ...
The chimpanzee
The majority of western Uganda's primary tropical forests are home to chimpanzees, making Uganda the country with the highest chan...
Blue monkey
The blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis), despite its name, is not particularly blue; it has sparse facial hair that occasionally giv...
Black-and-white colobus
This primate can be found in most significant forest sections, including well-developed riparian woodland, making it perhaps the m...
