Primate Piliocolobus gordonorum
Found nowhere else on earth. One of two endemic monkeys that make the Udzungwa Mountains famous.
The Udzungwa Mountains are called the Galápagos of Africa for good reason. This red colobus lives only here, in the same forests as the Sanje mangabey, a monkey that science only described in 1979.
Walks on the Sanje Falls trail usually find troops feeding in the lower forest, with the roar of the waterfall below. It is one of the great primate encounters in Tanzania and almost nobody knows about it.
Udzungwa Mountains National Park, especially on the Sanje Falls and Prince Bernhard trails.
Guide’s tipRed colobus often feed with Sanje mangabeys. Find one species and you may get both.
Sightings are never guaranteed: these are wild animals in wild places. What we can promise is a guide who knows where to look.
Destinations
The parks and reserves where our guides look for it, each with its own best season and safaris.
Rainforest endemics, Sanje Falls and the Kilombero Weaver in southern Tanzania.
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Loxodonta africana
Tarangire’s big herds are the classic sight: families drifting between baobabs to the river in the dry season.
Panthera leo
The Serengeti holds one of the largest lion populations left in Africa. Prides of twenty are not unusual.
Panthera pardus
Secretive and beautiful. The Seronera valley’s sausage trees are the best place in Africa to find one by day.
Acinonyx jubatus
Built for the short grass plains. Watch one scan from a termite mound in the southern Serengeti.
Diceros bicornis
Critically endangered and closely guarded. The Ngorongoro Crater is the most reliable place in Tanzania to see one.
Syncerus caffer
The Big Five’s heavyweight. Herds of several hundred are a daily sight in Arusha National Park and the crater.
Giraffa tippelskirchi
Tanzania’s national animal, with jagged star-shaped patches. Common almost everywhere except inside the crater.
Equus quagga
The migration’s other half. Hundreds of thousands of zebra move with the wildebeest across the Serengeti.
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