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A family of wild baboons sitting along the road from Mbale to Kampala.

The African Grey Crowned Crane, Uganda's national bird (Uganda Wildlife Education Center (zoo) near Kampala).

Male lion (Uganda Wildlife Education Center (zoo) near Kampala).

Rhinoceros (Uganda Wildlife Education Center (zoo) near Kampala).

Chimpanzee (Uganda Wildlife Education Center (zoo) near Kampala).

Red and black thorn spider.

Impala (Uganda Wildlife Education Center (zoo) near Kampala).

A small compound usually consisting of an extended family clan: the patriarch and his children and their spouses. The families each have their own houses, but they cooperatively farm the surrounding land. These are nicer homes with painted metal roofs.

A more typical compound with thatched rondavels (huts) built of stick frames packed with mud (or sometimes with bricks faced with mud) and covered with a straw or reed roof.

A frame for a rondavel (house) usually only 3 to 5 meters in diameter.

Mount Elgon is an extinct shield volcano on the border with Kenya. Two national parks, one on either side of the border, protect the area around the mountain.

Clouds encircle the lofty rim of Mount Elgon, a huge, long-extinct volcano on the border between Uganda and Kenya, viewed in this enhanced satellite image. The solitary volcano has one of the world's largest intact calderas, a cauldron-like central depression. The caldera is about 6.5 km (4 mi) across and formed following an eruption, when the emptied magma chamber collapsed under the weight of volcanic rock above it. For active volcanoes in Uganda, see the Natural hazards-volcanism subfield in the Geography section. Image courtesy of USGS.