Kibale National Park

The Kibale National Park is the most accessible of Uganda’s major rainforests. It is a home to a remarkable 13 primate species, including a much localized red colobus and L’Hoest’s monkey. However Kibale's major attraction is the opportunity to track habituated chimps - these delightful apes, more closely related to humans than any other living creature, are a tremendous fun to watch as they squabble and play in fruiting trees. Chimps are among the most intelligent primates. They've learned basic sign language in laboratories and in nature they exhibit tool use, fashioning sticks to dig for termites and grubs, smashing nuts with rocks and crumpling leaves to collect water.