| East Africa is one of the most well-recognized safari destination for tourists looking to view a variety of wildlife that is rare and exotic. Uganda is the most country that sets apart from other countries like Tanzania and Kenya.
A large number of primates that live in Uganda's forest are never seen by tourists because they sleep during the day and are only active at night. These include the bush baby (galago) of which there five different species in Uganda- and the potto (Perodicticus Potto). Both species are norcturnal, although the shrill cry of the bushaby is distinctive sound easily distinguished by their black bodies and long white tufted tails and shaggy white sides. They live in small groups and eat only leaves. Their diet is so specialized; their stomachs have different compartments to help them digest their leaves that they eat.
Ugandan forests except for Murchison falls and L. Mburo National and often lives in Union with other forest monkeys. Blue monkeys are not, in fact, blue but dark grey with white throat and chest, as well as tufted grey hair on their foreheads. In the forest, the males make a distinctive "pyow" sound as a territorial marker that can be heard from a far distance.
The red-tailed monkey, Cercopithecus ascinius, is also a forest guenon but its red. The red-tailed monkey is also brownish with white whiskers and has a heart shaped white patch on its nose. Red tailed monkeys are often found in Kibale forest, Semliki, Queen Elizabeth and Bwindi National Park, as well as Budongo Forest and Mpanga Forest.
Thanks to its tourists, Uganda has amount of rich and dense forest making it a perfect home to species that are absent from other parts of East Africa. Yet unlike similar forests in other parts of Africa, Uganda's forests are easily accessible for viewing forest wildlife, especially primates!.
Thousand of tourist travel to Bwindi to see the mountain gorilla, helping the communities of Bwindi every year to see the largest of all the primate species, with adult sometimes weighing over 200 kg.
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