Explore where the Gold Meets the Sliver Mgahinga Gorilla National Park; its golden monkey trekking in Mgahinga Gorillas national park in south western Conner of the in Kisoro district bordering Rwanda D Congo countries. Like the mountain gorillas , golden monkeys are only found in the three east African countries that is Uganda, Rwanda and Democratic Republics of Congo in Virunga mountains.
Origin of Golden Monkey; the old world monkey found in Virunga volcanic mountains of central Africa, in the forested areas including four national parks; in Mgahinga gorillas national park in southwestern Uganda, in the Volcanoes north western part of Rwanda, and in the Kahuzi Biega , eastern part of Democratic Republic of Congo.
Golden Monkey are Found in Mgahinga Gorillas national park in Uganda, Mgahinga gorillas national park in the only place in Uganda to trek these creatures thus they are found in volcanic mountains. Uganda is the of the few countries where you go for golden monkey trekking in Mgahinga gorillas national park , in volcanoes national park in Rwanda and in Democratic Republic of Congo in Kahuzi Biega national park. And it is an endemic species in the Virunga mountains in fact the golden monkeys are sub-species of Sykes monkeys which is known as the blue monkey.
Golden monkeys are so special; these comes in the way that these monkeys are very intelligent animals even come together to solve their problems, almost all the primates can do but these monkeys are wise that why they live in the group where there is females, the young ones, and males but the group where lead by Alpha male like that of gorillas lead by sliver back through their would be other males in the group, that group must be with the leader in golden monkey its Alpha as sliver back for gorillas. The golden monkey use facial expressions, body movement and special noise used in communicate with each other in the group.
Diet/ food of golden monkey ; just like mountain gorillas, the golden monkeys are herbivorous primates that feeds on bamboo shoots, trees branches, as their main source of food also feed on flowers of different vegetation and some times seen feed on small invertebrates like the termites, slugs, snails, among others in their habitat.
Predators of golden monkeys; the golden monkeys faced the the big threat of human being, in fact humans is the biggest predators of golden monkeys in their habitat, the human needs bamboos for as construction materials and the increasing population in human beings made to kill the monkeys, scare them away and cut down the bamboos and clear the golden monkeys habitat for agriculture hence living the monkeys with no habitat.
