Edinburgh Zoo

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.
   
• Book your tickets to Edinburgh Zoo now to see these amazing apes!  

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!