Animals found in Lake Mburo: The park is one of the smallest park in Uganda and it is the closest park to Kampala the capital city of Uganda, it takes like 3-4 hours to arrive to the park premises. Lake Mburo is found in Mbarara and the road is famously known as Mbarara-Masaka.

Lake Mburo is small in size but with a variety of wildlife animals and a lot of attraction within the park.

Lake Mburo national park has a variety of wildlife animals that are normally seen in the park. Visitors in Lake Mburo have high chances to watch a lot of wildlife animals and the good nature of the park, these are some of wildlife animals in the park like the zebras, impalas, elephants, bush buck, elands and bird species of over 350.

One of the most common animals seen in Lake Mburo national park are as below.

Lake Mburo national park is the only national park in Uganda where you will spot zebras and they are among the most common animals within the park, so all visitors who are interested to watch zebras in Uganda, you are recommended to book your trip in Lake Mburo but no elsewhere.

Another most common animal spotted in Lake Mburo national park hippopotamus. Hippopotamus are very common in the park and you will encounter many of them and most especially during the boat cruise on Lake Mburo, you can see more hippos as much as possible overflowing on the Lake Mburo.

Lake Mburo national park is the only place where you can spot amazing elands in all parks in Uganda. You will see how they beautiful these animals look and how they run their daily lives.

Buffaloes are among the most common animals within the park. Here visitors of Lake Mburo national park have a big opportunity to see many buffaloes mostly in the late evening when they are graze on land of the park. You will also be blessed to spot buffaloes as they are doing their amazing activities in the late evening.

Also Giraffes are most common animals in the park. In the past these animals never existed in Lake Mburo but currently they were introduced by Uganda Wildlife Authority in the park. Giraffes were transferred from Murchison falls national Park to Lake Mburo. Giraffes are just getting used with their new habitat and they are small in number.

Leopards are always spotted in Lake Mburo, Lake Mburo national park is also the best place for those visitors who are interested to watch Leopards. These animals are mostly seen during early morning game drive or night game drive because they are the shyest species of all wildlife animals with indefinable traits. The leopards are also occasional and they are hard to spot.

In Lake Mburo, there are also Lions although they are rare and few lucky visitors have been able to see these animals and they are like in one to two in the park. Lions currently have continued to return to the park due to good stability in the park.

Impalas are the most common animals in Lake Mburo national park and these animal species are found only in this park in Uganda, nowhere else you can spot impala apart from Lake Mburo and this makes it to be the unique animal in the park.

Lake Mburo is also home to the hyenas although they are rare in the park. Many more animals are found in Lake Mburo national park.