Common Chimpanzee
Our closest living relatives after bonobos — Kibale Forest offers Africa’s richest chimp trekking, with Budongo and Kyambura alternatives.
Field atlas
Common Chimpanzee
Pan troglodytes
IUCN Endangered
- Category Primates
- Group Great ape / primate
- Habitat
- Tropical rainforest and woodland galleries
- Where to see
- Kibale, Budongo, Kyambura Gorge
- Best time
- June–September & December–February (drier forest trails)