Edinburgh Zoo

Edith, one of the new chimps at Edinburgh Zoo's Budongo Trail. Photo by Edinburgh Zoo Facebook fan Pat Glynn.

Edinburgh Zoo recently welcomed a new group of 10 chimpanzees to Budongo Trail.  All of the new chimps have now been integrated with the original group of chimps.  Stop in today to see the new "supergroup" of chimps as they swing through their daily lives!

Budongo Trail is a state-of-the-art chimpanzee facility that links the excitement of seeing chimps up-close with wildlife conservation, science, education and research.

• Meet the chimps of Edinburgh Zoo's Budongo Trail!
   

• Discover the fascinating behavioural and interactive research we're doing with chimps here at Edinburgh Zoo. 
   

• Learn about The Chimpcam Project, a documentary made by BBC2's Natural World programme, starring the chimps of Budongo Trail!
   

• Find out more about the Royal Zoological Society's involvement in helping chimpanzees in the wild, in partnership with the Budongo Conservation Field Station in Uganda, Africa. 

• Watch the chimps in their enclosure on the new Budongo Trail Cam!
   

The Budongo Trail facility is full of interesting things to see and do!  Its features include:

• Huge indoor-outdoor environment that can house up to 40 chimps

• Outdoor climbing and vegetation area that provides fun, foraging, and exercise for the chimps, and stimulates the chimps to use and show natural physical, social and mental behaviours that you would see in wild communities of chimps

• Network of indoor rooms for the chimps with different environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity and lighting, so each can have a preferred "hangout"

• Areas for visitors with viewing galleries, plasma screens, interactive displays, murals and live plants 

• Lecture theatre and boardroom

• Interactive games, statues, tools the chimps use, and much more!