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They are great apes found across Central and West Africa. Spending most of their days in tree tops and can be found in Gabon, Cameroon, Uganda, Rwanda and protected areas of West Africa. In Uganda, a visitor can find chimpanzee places like Kibale Forest National Park, Kyambura Gorge in Queen Elizabeth national park, Kalinzu Forest reserve, Bigodi wetlands sanctuary and Budongo forest in Murchsion falls national park and at the Ngamba island in Lake Victoria near Entebbe International Airport. In Rwanda, chimps can be found in three main places like Nyungwe national park (Nyungwe & Cyamudongo) and Gishwati Mukura national park. Nyungwe national park has the highest population of chimpanzees close to over 400 individuals.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1707009466235{padding-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1707009406159{padding-top: 130px !important;}”][vc_column_text]

Chimpanzees  are omnivores with who cannot speak but communicate by using hand gestures, body posture, facial expressions and make various noises. They have a diet made up  of fruits, figs, nuts & Seeds, blossom and leaves, insects, honey, meat and eggs, medicinal plants and milk.

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Chimpanzee Males and Females

Family relationships are vital to chimpanzees. They live in extended family groups of as many as 20-120 individuals. They have a fission-fusion social organization in which they break off into smaller interchangeable groups and periodically come together. 

Males and females look much the same except that males are slightly larger than females. Both sexes are roughly the same height, usually measuring around 2feet and 8inches and have the same black hair around their bodies, with white beards, pale faces and prominent ears. 

Reproduction can happen at any time of the year, typically to a single infant that clings to it’s mother’s fur and later rides on her back until the times of weaning between the ages of three and five years. Females reach the reproductive age at 13, while males are not considered adults until 15.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]