Caring for the Young
Mountain gorillas have a slow rate of reproduction. Females give birth for the first time at about age 10 and will have more offspring every three or four years. A male begins to breed between 12 and 15 years, when he is in charge of his own group. Able to conceive for only about three days each month, the female produces a single young. Newborn gorillas are weak and tiny, weighing in at about 4 pounds. Their movements are as awkward as those of human infants, but their development is roughly twice as fast. At 3 or 4 months, the gorilla infant can sit upright and can stand with support soon after. It suckles regularly for about a year and is gradually weaned at about 31/2 years, when it becomes more independent.

Vocal communication among gorillas is important in within-group interactions as well as extra-group interactions. Within-group calls, include “copulatory grunts” and “whimpers” during copulation, “whines” and “whimpers” by infants, “play chuckles” during play, “intense” and “mild cough grunts” during mild threat displays, and “close” calls that include both “syllabled” and “non-syllabled” calls such as “train-grunts” and “dog whines”.”Close” calls are commonly given within the group in situations of either potential separation or potential conflict. Extra-group calls serve to alert group members of potential predation and include “barks” or are given as long-distance threat displays upon detection of another group and include the “hoot series,” which may be accompanied by chest beating. Most calling occurs within-groups during feeding times, though gorillas also call during rest periods as well.

Feeding
Gorillas spend about 14 hours feeding and foraging and about 10 hours resting every day,   moves about 400-1,000 meters (0.24-0.60 mi) per day which is about 88-219 miles per year.
Feeding/foraging activity peaks during the first three to four hours of the day. Then there is usually an extended rest period during midday until mid-late afternoon at which point feeding/foraging activity resumes.

Accommodation
Gorillas construct “beds” to sleep in at the end of the day. They gather vegetation around them in trees or on the ground. Gorillas construct a new nest each night because they travel to different locations during the day foraging. The daily construction of new nests also helps avoid parasites that may nest in the bedding. Infants sleep in their mother’s nest until they are about three years of age. However, some offspring as young as eight months practice nest building. Nests function to keep the mountain gorillas off the cold ground, prevent them slipping down a slope, or support them in a tree during the night. Researchers can identify the size, age, activity and make-up of a gorilla troop based on their nests.

Behavior
This gigantic animal is shy and retiring rather than ferocious and treacherous, it only reacts when harassed but will valiantly defend its family group if threatened. Family groups are close-knit and may have up to 30 members, but even if smaller, the group usually consists of at least one older male, one or more females and a few juveniles. Gorillas have strong attachments to members of their own group and even when groups meet and mingle and then subsequently part, each animal tends to remain with its respective unit. An adult male called a silverback named for the silvery gray hairs on its back normally leads each group, serving as its chief protector and defender. Gorillas continually wander through their home ranges of 10 to 15 square miles, feeding and resting throughout the day. Because gorillas are nomadic, they build new nests each day at dusk, constructing them of bent branches in a tree or of grasses on the ground.

A group’s hierarchy, ritualized behavior and bluff charges between males prevent conflict among and between groups. Gorillas scream, grab foliage and stuff it in their mouths, stand erect on their hind legs, tear up and throw plants, drum on the chest with hands or fists, stamp their feet, strike the ground with the palms of their hands and gallop in a mock attack on all fours.
Physical Characteristics
The gorilla is massive, with a short, thick trunk and broad chest and shoulders. Its eyes and ears are dwarfed by its large head and hairless, shiny black muzzle. Older males develop a crown of muscle and hair that makes the head look even longer. The arms are longer than the stubby legs. The fully adult male mountain gorilla is twice as large as the femal

9 DAYS MURCHISON FALLS , KIBALE, QUEEN, BWINDI, L.MBURO

On the first day A pleasantly planned safari will head towards the north a journey pleasant to travel and  it will allows a  lunch break in Masindi town before driving through to the budongo forest to the mighty Murchison falls encountering with variety of birds, monkeys, and baboons. on arrival to the park, a late afternoon refreshing walk to the top of the Murchison falls and will stay over night at to your pre-booked hotel in the park.

On the second day, a rise early in the morning for game drive that enables one to see some Giraffe, lion,  Elephant, Oribi, Bushbuck, Bohor reedbuck hyena and if your lucky, the leopard and a three hours boat ride in the afternoon after lunch cruising to the bottom of the falls, this allows  more bird watching of species like the shoebill and animals like: – crocodiles, hippos and elephants, before retiring to the hotel for over  for dinner and overnight on ful board.

This day three after an early morning breakfast, will include a departure to Kibale forest national park through Hoima with some packed lunch stop a long a cool place under a good looking tree before proceeding to Kibale to stop at the  hotel for dinner and overnight

The fourth day in the Early morning will transfer to the park for chimps tracking and after lunch transfer to Queen  Elizabeth arriving for dinner and overnight at the pre-booked hotel/lodge.

Fiffth day will includ a game drive after an early warm up tea or coffee, return for afull break fast before proceeding for a second game drive. Return for lunch and take an afternoon boat  ride on the Kazinga channel.Dinner and overnight at same hotel.

Day six, will be transfering from Queen Elizabeth National Park while enjoying the Landscape of Kigezi Highlands via the Ishasha Sector with box lunch and later arrive to Bwindi national park for overnight at hotel in this park

Seven day, Morning gorilla tracking in Bwindi, and afternoon lunch, village walk to the pygmies return for overnight on full board basis.

Eigth day will be  departing from Bwindi to Lake Mburo National Park. Have a stop over in Mbarara for Lunch and proceed to Lake Mburo have a game drive while entering the park. Lake Mburo National Park is a savannah park and has marked different fauna to other parks and Reserves, it is the best place in the country to see the gigantic Eland Antelope, as well as Zebra, Top, Impala, and several Acacia associated birds. The five Lakes within the park attract Hippos, Crocodiles, and a variety of water birds, while fringing swamps hide secretive papyrus specialists such as the sitatunga Antelope and red, Black and yellow papyrus Gonalek. Have an evening game drive and overnight at he hotel in the park.

The Ninth and last day after breakfast return to Kampala while birding, Lunch in Masaka town, stops over at the Equator for photos and performs earth’s magnetic pull experiments, overnight stay at the hotel in Kampala.

End of uganda safari

Uganda sprawls across the Equator line that divides Africa into two. The country boasts of 10 beautiful Nationals parks that are located and distribute to offer the best safari in Africa. These places offers wildlife visitors a thrilling opportunity to experience Uganda’s biodiversity not only in the tracks of thorn bushes savannah mingling with antelope, buffalo and Elephant that one tends to associate with the Equatorial East Africa, but with lush expanses of tropical rain forest, lakes and rivers supporting the aquatic life and the glacial peaks of Africa’s tallest Mountain range know as the Mountains of the moon because of its spackling appearances.

Among the 10 Nationals parks is the countries largest protected are of Murchison Falls National Park located in North part of the country ha psalm studded grassland that support the dense population of the lion, buffalo, elephant and Uganda kob, together with the Rothschild giraffe and patas monkey.

Concentration of hippos can be experience and a number of bird specie have been counted here and observed in the early hours of the morning and afternoon during the boat cruise trip along the Nile below a spectacular bottom of the water falls of which the park is named after.

Rwenzori mountains national park is a nether protected are that protects the eastern slopes and glacial peaks of 120km long Rwenzori Mountains of the moon as it’s called. First class world hiking takes place here in the mountain which destination is as significant as it lines with the source of the Nile in Eastern Uganda. This comes all the way from the 150AD during the formation of the Western Rift Valley that raised it to 5,109m above sea level. It supports large tracks of ever green and bamboo forest, while the higher Mooreland zone is known for its other worldly cover of giant heathers, lobelias and groundsels.

Queen Elizabeth National park is set majestically in the shadows of the giatant Rwenzori Mountains and bisected into two parts by Lake Edward and George that forms Kazinga channel. The open savannah offers prime grazing place to the buffalo, elephant, Antelope, that various in number. About 600 different checklists of bird species and a number of giant forest hog and the most attracted climbing lion is found here on the Ishasha sector.

Most of the western is forested, and one of the reserves, Bwindi forest National Park is the best known places for Mountain gorilla tracking, this place also supports other animals in the forest like Forest Elephants, Chimpanzee, monkeys, small antelope and as well as various 25 species of birds, this is also found on the western arm of the rift valley.

Another National park sitting with gorillas just as Bwindi is Mgahinga National park, though the gorillas here keep crossing boarders between Uganda and Rwanda, but it protects the other Uganda portion of the Virungas, an imposing string of the nine freestanding extinct and active volcanoes that runs along the boarders of three…Rwanda, Congo and Uganda.

Along the Albertine rift is the Semuliki National Park, and extension from Congo Ituri rain forest is set at the base of northern Rwenzori Mountain, is of special interest to ornithologists for some 40 Congolese bird species recorded nowhere else in the country. Nearby, is the spectacular semuliki wildlife Reserve, which abuts Lake Albert, stands as one of the best locations for sighting shoe bill.

Kibale Forest National Park, is a primate called park in the country with the highest population of primates with more than 1000 chimpanzees, about 80 strong community has been habituated to visitors to the park as well as half  dozen of readily  observed monkey species, including the aerobatic red colobus and black – white colobus and handsome Lhoest’s monkey.

The closest to Kampala is Lake Mburo National Park which is a centre of series of swamp-fringed lakes known for their rich birdlife, notably the secretive African fin foot. The green acacia woodland surrounding the lake harbors dense populations of zebra, wathog, buffalo, impala, and various other grazers, including the last surviving population of Eland, the largest African antelope.

Mountain Elgon National park located between the boarders of Uganda and Kenya encompasses the 4,321m is an extinct volcano in the world has lush Afro-montane forest, grassland and moorland habitats makes this park a highly rewarding destination for hikers and other natural historical enthusiasts.

Lastly in the far east, the remote wild place and little-visited Kidepo National Park provides refuge to long list of dry country species not found else where in the country, including cheeter and greater Kudu, while its perennial waters attract large numbers of elephant and thousand – strong buffalo herds, especially during dry spelt

Am a writer from Uganda, who started posting articles in different forums pages 3 years a go. I have found some of this articles very interesting and educative in that a number of different articles are written to teach other how to write stories that they do not know about not entirely about personal life but the happening s that occur in the world.

I majorly on articles of tourism based in east Africa, about the safaris, travel and updates about what is happening in this destination. As I write it so happened that we have begun loosing animals that are very good for ever body in the world to see, recently in Rwanda, the country lost 4 Mountain gorillas, how the died not known, then in Uganda in Queen Elizabeth National park near the fishing villages the country lost 5 Lions. Know that these are the key animals that people whole over the world come to see apart from Culture, Eco-tours, birding the gorillas are the most wanted primates. There are about 700 gorillas in total in the world and the over half of the population are in the virungas area ( Uganda, Rwanda and Congo)

The Lions are the other interesting animals that make the big five after the Leopard, Buffalo, Rino and the elephant, a safari is incomplete if a visitor has not seen all these animals.

All the death of animals is all around mention of the growing population around the park areas where people think that this are abandoned places, so they move in with Domestic animals which they think are eaten by the lions so the poison this cats, reducing the number and hardening the search for this

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