Gorilla Trekking Safaris Vs Chimpanzee Trekking Safaris

Gorilla Trekking Safaris Vs Chimpanzee Trekking Safaris : Gorillas and the chimpanzees are such attractive primates both on the Uganda safaris, Rwanda safaris as these are the closet cousins in the reality. These belong to the Hominidae family and the subfamily homininae and they prefer living in the rainforests. These primates, the gorillas share 98% of the human being genes as the chimpanzees share 99% of the DNA genes with the human beings as these primates have got almost the similar physical appearances, habits, diets as they majorly are the herbivores and among many others.

Mountain gorillas and the chimpanzees have got almost the similar characteristics that make them to appear as the same animal species in most of the cases. Besides everything these are various similarities between the mountain gorillas and the chimpanzees. But most of the times the tourists decide to carry out gorilla trekking or the chimpanzee trekking in order to notice themselves the differences and the similarities of these animal species. Still there are some trekkers who have done gorilla trekking and chimpanzee trekking will be sure about how these primates are different from one another.

Gorilla trekking Vs chimpanzee trekking.

This article brings our minds from the confusion that goes around about the chimpanzees and the mountain gorillas. Here are similarities and the differences between the mountain gorilla trekking and the chimpanzee trekking on a Uganda safari.

As well also this article will gives you the similarities between the chimpanzee trekking and the gorilla trekking on a safari.

While going to carry out gorilla trekking or chimpanzee trekking you can first have the briefing about the rules and regulations while going to carry out trekking. As the briefing is majorly given to the trekkers as they are giving the most of the expectations for the trekking experience before heading to the forest to start trekking with the help of the well experienced park guide.

Both the gorilla trekking and the chimpanzee trekking are done from the rain forests, due to the fact that they do inhabit the rainforests, and for the trekkers who are interested in the trekking will explore and encounter the rainforests in order to find these primates.

When going to carry out the gorilla trekking or the chimpanzee trekking you can first be grouped into the various groups with other people of the maximum of a certain number of members whom you will trek with as it’s impossible to carry out gorilla trekking or chimpanzee trekking alone.

During the gorilla trekking or chimpanzee trekking, after finding these primates you can be given one hour to be with the presence with them in their habitants, as your observing their behaviors, watching them play, feed, making their nests of the their next sleep, how they groom one another, taking pictures and videos with them to show back people home after the safari.

Trekking rangers/guides will be with you as you go to the rainforest on your gorilla trekking or the chimpanzee trekking experience. The park guides who takes you to the forests in the trekking trails are professionals and well experienced personals with the forest that you are trekking and the primates, so they give you firsthand information about the trekking.

The guidelines to follow while doing gorilla trekking and chimpanzee trekking are almost the same. As one of them includes the keep a 7 meter distance between you and the primate, and not using the cameras with the flash while taking the pictures of these primates, staying together in the group as you went, not doing trekking when you are sick as any disease can be transmitted to these primates and can result into their death, not engage yourselves in any activity that will disrupt these primates.

Differences between the mountain gorilla trekking and the chimpanzee trekking.

Due to the fact that the gorillas do live in the high altitudes in the mountainous rain forests, as this takes a longer time for the trekkers to find these species, where the chimpanzees live in the lower altitudes as these can be easily be found and spotted by the tourists during the trekking. So gorilla trekking experience takes a longer time as you spend most of the time finding the gorillas, where the chimpanzees being the species that stays on the lower altitude it’s very easy for the tourists to find them soon and easily hence easy trekking.

During the gorilla trekking the maximum number of the people per groups are 8 where as in the case of chimpanzee trekking the maximum number of people can even be beyond 8 may be 10 or 12 in the group. This is because the reason being that the chimpanzees live  in the larger groups compared to the mountain gorillas that can be less individuals, which is during gorilla trekking if the group members can be above can be scared away which not a case in the chimpanzees.