Wildlife Viewing

Viewing wildlife in their natural habitat can be one of the most incredible travel experiences any of us can have. Whether you have always longed to see an elephant or want a chance to see the endangered Mountain Gorilla, we can help you get closer to your dream. This is a list of some of the animals and birds which travellers are more commonly looking for. Here you will find our suggestions as to where you might find them.

If you have a passion to see wildlife not on the list, by all means let us know and we'd be glad to advise you.

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Albatross

The Waved Albatross of the Galapagos Islands has a huge 2-2.5m wingspan, making it the largest bird on the Galapagos Islands.
Andean Condor

The Andean Condor is one of the largest flying birds in the world, with a wing span of over 3 metres.
Cheetah

Cheetahs have short, coarse tan-coloured coats with small black spots, and distinctive black marks running like tears from their eyes to their mouths. They are unique in that their claws are only slightly retractable – giving them extra grip at high speed. And, unlike the other big cats, cheetahs have no roar – instead they yelp, purr and chirrup.
Chimpanzees

These intelligent animals differ from humans by just over 1% of DNA and, not surprisingly, have behaviour patterns very similar to us, forming close social groups, using tools, working as a team and waging war against each other.
Cock of the Rock

The national bird of Peru, the Cock-of-the-Rock has featured on stamps and in school text books in that country for decades. As is often the case with bird species, the males are the most striking in appearance, having brilliant orange or red plumage, with a disk-like cockade on the top of their heads.
Dolphins

Common dolphins and bottlenose dolphins are playful, gregarious animals, with common dolphins appearing to ‘love’ boats, and bottlenose most happily tolerating humans swimming amongst them. Dolphins are actually small, toothed whales.
Elephants

The largest land mammal in the world, the male African elephant can be up to four metres tall – as high as a double-decker bus – and weigh over six tonnes. The average Asian male elephant is shorter than a male African elephant, up to three metres high and five tones in weight.
Galapagos Tortoise

The Giant Tortoise is probably the most famous resident of the Galapagos Islands and gave the archipelago its name – galapago is the Spanish name for tortoise.
Giant Otters

The Giant Otter is the world’s largest otter species, measuring up to 1.8m and weighing 32 kg. They live in the rivers and creeks of the Amazon, Orinoco and La Plata river systems. They live in family groups of up to 20 animals.
Gorillas

Gorillas are the largest primates on earth, and have captured the imagination of humans for centuries, though the mountain gorilla wasn’t known to science until 1902. Found in dense forests and rainforests in just four national parks in Uganda and Rwanda, mountain gorilla numbers are small – possibly around a thousand.

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