Chimpanzees
Habituations in Kibale.
Chimpanzees Habituation experience is the process of
training wild chimpanzee to get used to human presence and they are being
trained by researchers. It is one experience that makes you to spend the whole day with chimpanzees. Actually you can choice to come for chimpanzee’s trekking or chimpanzee’s
habituation, but for chimpanzees habituation you have to book the permits in
advances like one month before. This will enable us to make payment earlier to
Uganda Wildlife Authority so as to get trekking group. Uganda has 4950 chimpanzees
and 1500 chimpanzees are found in Kibale forest National Park.
The best month for
chimpanzee habituation experience is
around March, April, May and November because there is less tourist congestion
in the park. The permits cost $220 for foreign non-residents, $150 for foreign
residents and $70 for East Africans and the permits are only sold from Uganda
wildlife authority [UWA]. For chimpanzee habituation experience the maximum
number allowed per day is small group of eight people with the game ranger and
the researchers only. With chimpanzee habituation clients should be assured of
having whole day with the chimpanzee, taking much photography, getting more
formation about the chimpanzees and knowledge.
While hiking the chimpanzee habituation experience you
should expect to see other wildlife in the park like baboons, red tailed
monkeys, elephants, black and white colubus, warthogs, buffaloes, bush pigs,
leopards, African golden cats and many others. The bird species and butterflies
will be observed and the beauty of the forest in generally will be enjoyed.
Chimpanzee habituation experience always starts very early
in the morning because it gets when the chimpanzees are still at the nests. So
the tourists should set off at 6am to forest and the meet the chimpanzee family
and then follow them and view them the all day as they go about their lives,
till late in the evening when they make a new nest to rest. Actually
chimpanzees can over move thus they are so mobile, so tourists should come early
enough so as to catch up with them before they leave to search for food in the
forest.
Requirement for
chimpanzee habituation.
The tourists should carry packed lunch, drinking water but
went eating should not be near the chimpanzees. The clothes should be water
proof, hiking rubber boots, long trousers, long sleeved shirt \ blouse ,insect
repellent, rain jacket, camera plus its bag and extra batteries for photography
since you will have whole day with the
chimpanzees.
Rules and regulation
to consider before doing chimpanzee’s habituation and trekking
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Access to the forest should be done with help of
game ranger / guide but not only the tourists.
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Children under the age of 12 years below are not
allowed to accessing the park.
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Always don’t carry cameras with flash light it
can scare away the chimpanzees.
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Eating near the chimpanzee is prohibited.
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Give the chimpanzee distance of 8m
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Anyone with communicable disease like flue and
diarrhea are not allowed to trek.
Comparing between
chimpanzee Habituation and chimpanzee trekking.
Chimpanzee Habituation experience is the process of training
wild chimpanzees to get used to the presences of human being and the method was
started by researchers. Chimpanzee trekking is an amazing wildlife experience
of going into the jungle in search of wild chimpanzees with help of tour guide
and game ranger from Uganda wildlife Authority.
Chimpanzee habituation takes whole day hiking the
chimpanzees and chimpanzee trekking takes only 1-3 hours.
Chimpanzee habituation experience permits are booked one
month in advance while chimpanzee trekking permits are can be booked three
days to the trek.
Booking Chimpanzee
Habituation Permits
Chimpanzee Habituation experience permits are booked from
Uganda wildlife authority main office which is located in Kampala kamwokya. The
permits are booked month in advance because of the limited number of tourists
who are allowed to visit chimpanzee habituation per day.
Some of the near
accommodation in kibale national park
Primate Lodge kibale
Kanyanchu River camp
Sebitoli camping ground
Kibale safari lodge
Kibale forest camp
