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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Potto

The potto is a medium-sized nocturnal primate that resembles a sloth and lives in the depths of forests. It spends the night eatin...

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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...

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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...

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Grey-cheeked Mangabey

The grey-cheeked mangabey (Lophocebus albigena) is a tiny, hairy monkey that is greyish black in colour. The Kibale National Park ...

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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...

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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 ...

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The chimpanzee

The majority of western Uganda's primary tropical forests are home to chimpanzees, making Uganda the country with the highest chan...

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Bush baby

The bush baby, commonly known as the galago, is a small nocturnal monkey that spends the majority of its time in woodland areas. I...

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Blue monkey

The blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis), despite its name, is not particularly blue; it has sparse facial hair that occasionally giv...

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Black-and-white colobus

This primate can be found in most significant forest sections, including well-developed riparian woodland, making it perhaps the m...

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