Animals in Queen Elizabeth National Park

Animals in Queen Elizabeth National Park: Queen Elizabeth National Park is naturally endowed with a lot of animal species and is well known as the best in Uganda when it comes to fauna/wildlife. Queen Elizabeth is one of the largest national parks in Uganda; it is half the size of Murchison falls national park. Queen Elizabeth national park as over 95 mammals and this is inclusive of the Africa’s big five apart from the white rhino. The animals the main attractions for Queen Elizabeth national park and are partially reason for the fame that Queen Elizabeth national park has earned in east Africa.

Big cats

Tree climbing lions of ishasha are some of the animals in Queen Elizabeth national park and are the major big cats of Queen Elizabeth National Park. And they make a highlight of every east African safari. They are unique animals special to queen Elizabeth national park and found in the southern area of Queen Elizabeth national park in ishasha sector. They are tree climbers indeed because they are seen in the tree branches of candelabra trees of the Savannah. The reasons as to why these kings of the jungle climb trees are now known;

The lions in ishasha climb trees when they are running away from the biting tsetse flies on the ground, so they climb the trees for protection from the insects.
Another reason is, to view their prey well from up in the trees. The tree climbing lions of ishasha have spy tendencies and they love spying the Uganda kobs grazing in the field.
And lastly, the lions of ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth national park climb trees to run away from the hot ground during the dry season; January and February. The lions climb up in the branches of the candelabra trees to cool down, and sometimes they even fall asleep up in the tree branches during the day.

Other cats include the leopards; they are mainly nocturnal and are camouflage; they blend with their bushy hideouts. The leopards are mainly seen in the night/ nocturnal game drives in Queen Elizabeth national park. The small cats include; the civet genal, and the serval cats; they are also nocturnal animals and seeing them is better in the night game drive.

Primates

Queen Elizabeth has about 10 species of primates but the most prominent one is the chimpanzee family. Queen Elizabeth national park chimpanzees live in kyambura gorge; a strip of rainforest through wide savannah grassland. The chimps are some of the animals in queen Elizabeth national park and are an endangered group of primates in Uganda, so everywhere they are found is like a sanctuary for. You stand a 50% chance to see the chimpanzees when you visit kyambura gorge for chimpanzee tracking in queen Elizabeth national park. Other primates in queen elizabeth national park are; black and white colubus monkeys, the red tailed monkeys and the blue monkeys among the rest.

The big game

The big game of queen elizabeth national park include the hippos, elephants and buffaloes. Queen Elizabeth national park has about 5000 hippos, 2500 elephants and over 1000 buffaloes living in the vast savanna plains. They are mainly seen during the game drive and kazinga channel and Lake George shorelines.

Others animals include the giant forest hogs easily seen during the game drives and they are common in queen Elizabeth national park, the mongooses are also small animals of the rodent family they are mainly found in areas of mweya peninsular, the kobs are very common through queen Elizabeth national park, statunga antelopes, and water backs among others.

Queen Elizabeth national park a true protected area with a large number of herbivores; animals that graze, and a number of cats like the animals which prey on the herbivores in orders to sustain the balance in the ecosystems of queen Elizabeth national park.