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Uganda’s Hard To Miss Monkeys

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I’m heading in a slightly different direction, focussing on a group we haven’t really looked at here before, but one that most people enjoy seeing, monkeys! They may not even be most beautiful species of monkey in Uganda, the guenons are even more attractive to my mind, but they are certainly the most striking.

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Dreaming of Africa

10,000 Birds

Bird book of choice is the “Birds of East Africa” by Terry Stevenson and John Fanshawe, a Helm Field Guide covering Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi – also the first complete guide to cover the 1388 species found in this region.

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Birding by Volunteering

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The first time I went was for my Masters Field Trip, studying tropical ecology in Kenya (otherwise known as the best month of my life). My third trip was six months spend working on a monkey project in the jungles of Uganda. As has been the case every time I’ve been to Africa before, I won’t be there just for play.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

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Here, in south-west Ethiopia’s awkwardly named “Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People’s Region”, bordering Kenya and Sudan, the great Omo River dominates this dry savanna valley, resulting in some of Africa’s most well developed and best preserved arid-zone riverine forests. Mursi woman. A Mursi woman in full regalia.

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Ethiopia’s Endemics

10,000 Birds

Gelada lip flare My favorite Ethiopian animal, the Gelada used to be considered a baboon but is actually the last survivor of an ancient group of grass-eating monkeys that used to occur throughout Africa, the Mediterranean and India.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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A few years ago while I was watching elephants in the Samburu National Reserve in Northern Kenya with elephant researcher Iain Douglas-Hamilton, I noticed a teenaged female, Babyl, who walked very slowly and had difficulty taking each step. Empathy Among Elephants. He stood up and quickly looked around.

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