Ngogo chimpanzee trekking is the newly introduced chimpanzee trekking site at Kibale National Park in 2022, and the price of the chimpanzee permit has been released on the newly introduced UWA rates.
For years, the Ngogo chimpanzee community, which consists of over 200 individuals, being recorded as the largest chimpanzee community ever, has been subjected to a chimpanzee research project.
David Watts (Yale University) and John Mitani (University of Michigan) started the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project in 1995 and, with the help of Ph.D. and Post-doctoral students, Ugandan Research Assistants, and Dr. Jeremiah Lwanga (Project Manager and now also Director of MUBFS), have maintained a continuous research presence at the site since then.
Ngogo is particularly favorable habitat for chimpanzees, which helps to explain why such a large community can exist and why population density there is three times as high as at the nearby site of Kanyawara, the second long-term research site in Kibale.
The Ngogo chimpanzees are well habituated to the presence of observers, which has allowed researchers to collect extensive and detailed information on many topics. Among others, these have included male social relationships and social networks; female social relationships; mating behavior and influences on male reproductive success; effects of kinship on social behavior; influences on hunting frequency and success and on meat sharing; the impact of predation by chimpanzees on the local red colobus monkey population; and the function of inter-group aggression in chimpanzees. The large community size means that social dynamics there are particularly complex at Ngogo; correspondingly, research there has greatly expanded our knowledge of the range of variation in chimpanzee social behavior and ecology.
Perhaps the most stunning research result of the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project has been simply documentation of the extraordinary size and the composition of the chimpanzee community there and of the concomitant extent of variation in community size and population density within Kibale National Park.
Ngogo Chimpanzee introduced to tourism.
With the ongoing research, the Ngogo chimpanzee at Kibale National Park, has been introduced to tourism, with visitors now freely booking chimpanzee trekking at Ngogo site at Kibale National Park. This will boost the number of visitors to Kibale National Park, with briefing points still at Kanyanchu Visitor Center. The chimpanzees at Ngogo are well habituated since they have been used to the presence of the researchers.
You can now have Ngogo chimpanzee trekking as part of your Uganda safaris, with One More Adventure Safaris. Speak to our experts and have this trek, included in your package. This can as well be combined with other chimpanzee trekking at Kanyawara or gorilla trekking safari.
You can as well combine the chimpanzee trekking at Ngogo, with chimpanzee habituation at Kibale National Park, together with gorilla habituation at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
Cost of Chimpanzee permit at Ngogo site
The cost of a chimpanzee permit is 400 dollars per person, and the price is fixed unlike the Kanyawara, which has different rates for residents and citizens, the Ngogo permits are fixed at 400 dollars per person.
How to get to Ngogo trekking site.
Ngogo is part of Kibale National Park, and all visitors first meet at Kanyanchu visitor center for briefing, and later drive off to Ngogo, which is roughly 35 minutes’ drive away.
How to book the Ngogo Chimpanzee trekking at Kibale National Park.
Get in touch with our tour experts, at One More Adventure Safaris and curate a perfect Uganda Safaris, which does include Chimpanzee trekking at Ngogo, Kibale National Park.
