THE TREE CLIMBING LIONS IN QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK

The climbing lions are commonly spotted in two places in Africa that is in Queen Elizabeth National Park and in Lake Manyara National Park of Tanzania.  Tree climbing lions in Uganda can only be found in the Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park.

Instead of focusing your eyes across vast savannah grasslands, look up and you might see something stunning in the sycamore -fig trees and acacia trees that is to say the tree climbing lions in a regal pose. The climbing lions love the wide branched (candelabrum) trees found in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Relaxing on the wide branch of a fig tree, the lion strikes a pose watching over its territories.

The tree climbing lions are the key selling species of Queen Elizabeth National Park. Everyone would be wondering why lions climb trees. According to the recent research states it clearly that tree climbing is a behavioral adaption, it’s not a product of evolution. The lions adopt this unusual behavior to escape bites from insects such as tsetse flies and the overwhelming heat from the ground. The tree branches offer shelter for shade from the midday sunshine and a cool breeze from the atmosphere; this makes it comfortable for them to enjoy their vantage point when they are hunting thus called tree climbing lions.

In Queen Elizabeth National Park the Ishasha sector is the best site for game drives; it is the hidden gem and the quiet part of Queen Elizabeth National Park that you can enjoy the sights and sounds of the tree climbing lions and other majestic mammals which include zebras, buffaloes, Ugandan Kobs and elephants.

Book with us to and have a chance to see the climbing lions in Queen Elizabeth National Park.