Monkeys

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Monkeys

• Kibale is a moist, mid-altitude tropical
  forest,comprised of a mosiac of vegetation types,
  which vary with the altitude. This includes areas
  of permanent swamps, and some grasslands
  especially on hilltops.

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Gorilla

• The Gorilla is the largest of the anthropoid
  manlike apes. This animal has huge shoulders, a
  broad chest, and long arms and short legs. A
  large male gorilla living in the wild may weigh
  450 pounds. Standing up on its hind legs may
  reach 6 feet tall.

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Chimpanzee

• Chimpanzees are curious and excitable, and they
  enjoy playing when young. They have excellent
  memories, and enough skill to enable them to make
  simple tools. They have been known to put two
  sticks together and to pile up boxes in order to
  reach food. Young chimps can be tamed easily .

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• They make excellent performers because they are
  intelligent and they are good imitators. A
  chimpanzee looks like a hairy man. A full grown
  chimpanzee may be 5 feet tall and weigh as much
  as 180 pounds. Sometimes the chimpanzee can be
  found in the trees, But most of the time there on
  the ground.They eat fruit and leaves.

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Other species

• Eleven species of primates live in Kibale,
• including species of nocturnal prosimians,
  several monkeys species, chimpanzees, and
  baboons. Other wildlife at Kanyawara include
  hundreds of avian species , forest elephant,
  duikers, giant forest hog, golden cat, civit,
  genets, mongoose, squirrels, snakes, and rodents,
  and rarely leopards.