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Chimpanzees Print E-mail
ImageScientific name: Pan troglodytes
The Wildlife Authorities confiscated Onapa from Muntene in Hoima. His origin is unknown but it is most likely that he came from Budongo Forest. He was taken to Masindi where he spent a week. Wildlife Officials brought him to UWEC on 21 August 2004.
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Baboon Print E-mail
ImageScientific Name: Papip ursinus
The female baboon Joyce (also known as Girl) at the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre (UWEC) shares her enclosure with 1 male and 6 female patas monkeys. This is an unusual situation, but Joyce is very fond of the female patas ?., so she was accepted into the troop. Joyce escaped from her carers at Resort Beach in Entebbe in 1995.
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Vervet Monkey Print E-mail
ImageScientific Name: Cercopithecus aethiops
Vervet monkeys are Greenish-grey savanna monkeys with white-fringed dark faces. They have a long tail and a grey or olive back. They live in a wide variety of lightly wooded savanna habitats. Found through out the savanna grasslands of Africa and reaching altitudes of up to 3,000m.
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Grey Checked Mangabey Print E-mail
ImageThe Mangabey arrived at the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre (UWEC) on 11 April 2000. He was three and a half years old at the time and had been hand raised and kept by Russians working in Uganda on a work contract. When they left Uganda, the new tenants of their property did not want to look after him, so he was taken to UWEC for housing and care.
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Red-Tailed Monkey Print E-mail

ImageScientific Name: Cercopithecus ascanius
Nakabugo was rescued in Kampala and taken to the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre on 6 September 2001. She was approximately 1 year old at the time. At the moment, she is temporarily housed in a small enclosure, awaiting the construction of a new, more naturalistic enclosure.
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