Lake Nabugabo is home to vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus), Angolan colobus (Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii), as well as the occasional red-tail monkey (Cercopithecus ascanius), and two species of galagos (possibly Otolemur crassicaudatus and one other unidentified smaller species). Research on the vervets began in 2011, while research on the colobus began in 2014. Topics currently under investigation for the vervets include understanding the relationships between reproductive ecology, sociality, and hormones, consensus costs in group movements, and decision-making during social foraging. The colobus monkeys form a unique multilevel society within the primates where male bonding is very important and males sometimes care for offspring, and work is currently underway to determine how their dynamic patterns of sociality evolved.
Nabugabo Research Site 