This was the dominant silverback gorilla in the troop that I saw in Uganda. There was a younger silverback in the troop as well, and eventually he will challenge for the top spot. When this happens, the troop will probably split in two, with each silverback taking roughly half the members. There are only 700 mountain gorillas left in the wild in Uganda, the Congo and Rwanda.
This is a male red-chested sunbird that I photographed in Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda.  The long curved bill is used to extract nectar from flowers. Uganda is one of the best places in the world for birding due to its fortunate geographic positioning between the savannah to the east, the sub-sahara region to the north and the jungle to the west.
It’s been a while since I posted a gorilla shot. Just came across this one of a young male taking a bite out of his friend’s head. Some day, one of these guys might end up the dominant male silver back of his own troop. This was in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest of Uganda.
Red colobus monkeys are one of eight different species of primate that we saw in Uganda. They are listed as critically endangered due to sensitivity to habitat loss. This one was spotted in Kibale National Park in the southwestern corner of the country.
Birds are always a little more amusing when they’re looking directly at you. This is a cattle egret and it was photographed in Uganda. Cattle egrets also occur in the United States and as the name indicates, they’re often found around cattle. Like other egrets and herons, they are primarily wading birds, but they make their way to pastures to pluck ticks and flies from cows and other mammals.
Although these eyelashes may look long, they’re actually quite short for an African elephant. Sometimes you see elephants with four inch long lashes. They act as sunshades to block out the harsh light, and also dust, of the African savannah. This one was photographed in Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda.
There were three baby gorillas in the troop of twenty three that we saw in the Ugandan jungle. The two other babies were running around, swinging from vines and playing when this one settled into its mother’s arms to take a nap.
Certainly, the crested cranes of eastern Africa are among the finest looking of all the cranes. This one was photographed on an island in the middle of Lake Bunyonyi in Uganda. They are also sometimes called crowned cranes, or crested crowned cranes.
I posted a similar photo a few years ago, but was recently going through my files and I was able to get a cleaner image of these three African elephants in Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda. The sun had been down for a while when I took this shot in the last possible light of the day. In the background you can see the euphorbia candelabrum trees that are typical of the Ugandan savannah.
Just a zebra minding its business. There are three different kinds of zebra in Africa, the mountain zebra, Grevy’s zebra and plains zebra. This guy is a Burchell’s zebra which is a subspecies of the plains zebra. You never know when you might need this valuable information. This photo was taken in Mburro National Park in Uganda.