Primates Archives – A-One Safaris

Uganda Primates: Grey-cheeked Mangabey

Scientific name; Lophocebus albigena The Grey-cheeked Mangabey is an Old World monkey with few distinguishing features and baboon-like mannerisms found in the forests of Central Africa. They range from Cameroon down to Gabon and across in western Uganda. How to identify a Grey-cheeked Mangabey The Grey-cheeked Mangabey is a dark monkey, looking in shape overall

Where should you do Gorilla tracking? Uganda vs Rwanda Vs Congo

baby gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Gorilla tracking is one of the highly sought after activities when visiting East Africa. Thousands of people a year hike jungles to get a glimpse of these rare giants that are only found in East Africa. All the world’s gorillas are found in only three countries; Uganda, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo. Few have

Uganda Primates: Black and white Colobus Monkey

Scientific name: Colobus Guereza The colobus is the most arboreal of all African monkeys and rarely descends to the ground. It uses branches as trampolines, jumping up and down on them to get liftoff for leaps of up to 50 feet. They leap up and then drop downward, falling with outstretched arms and legs to

Uganda Primates: Vervet Monkey

Vervet monkeys use different sounds to warn of different types of predator. For instance, vervets have distinct calls to warn of the sighting of a leopard, a snake, or an eagle. Scientific name: Chlorocebus aethiops Young vervet monkeys appear to have an innate tendency to make these alarm calls, and adult monkeys seem to give

Chimpanzees

You’ll hear them before you see them; from somewhere deep in the forest, an excited hooting, just one voice at first, then several, rising in volume and tempo and pitch to a frenzied unified crescendo, before stopping abruptly or fading away. Jane Goodall called it the ‘pant-hoot’ call, kind of bonding ritual that allows any

Baboons

Scientific Names: Olive baboon ; Papiocynocephalus anubis Yellow baboon ; Papio ynocephalus cynocephalus The baboon, of all the primates in East Africa, most frequently interacts with people. Apart from humans, baboons are the most adaptable of the ground-dwelling primates and live in a wide variety of habitats. Intelligent and crafty, they can be agricultural pests,