What is a Gorilla Habituation Experience

A Gorilla habituation experience is simply known as the act of training wild gorillas to become used to the sight of people. It includes different groups of people like the trackers, researchers, conservationists, and the rangers among others who take a period of about 2 to 3 years completing the habituation experience. It’s usually a learning experience that has become a stable activity that is presented by the Uganda Wildlife Authority on a small scale. This experience only allows 4 persons thus bookings for this kind of activity are to be done 6 months prior to the actual habituation day precisely during the months of December all through March and July to October.

Gorilla trekking Experience in Uganda

Unlike gorilla trekking which limits one’s interaction with the gorillas to only one hour, Gorilla habituation allows 44 hours in the company of the gorillas. More so one spends a little bit more $1500 per person needing to do the habituation experience from the $600 per person paid for gorilla trekking.

Since this experience doesn’t exist in Rwanda and in DRC, one can only find it inside the Ugandan borders at Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. This is where you find close to 11 habituated Uganda gorilla safari groups including; Rushegure, Habinyanja, and Mubare which are found at Buhoma, North of the park, at Rushaga in the south where you will find Mishaya, Bweza, Shinji, Kahungye, Busingye, and Mkuringo, as well as Bitakura gorilla families, were also set aside as the gorilla families available for habituation. During this process, the guests get to understand the gorillas deeper and separately, get to know their behaviors, and get to the point of naming every one of them. At last, in case the researchers are certain that the wild gorillas are okay with the presence of people.

At last, in case the researchers are convinced that the wild gorillas are okay with the presence of people, a mock exercise is done as a way of testing to prove their facts. When the gorillas pass this kind of exercise which now includes journalists and scientists, the gorilla group is then available for trekking.