A variety of wildlife is found in the forests on the foot of the mountain but pretty hard to spot because of the increasing number of human visitors in recent times. Climbers will be traversing through a wide variety of ecological zones on their journey to the summit of Uhuru peak. While crossing the forest belt that is teemed with wildlife, climbers may have a chance of witnessing large mammals like elephants, giraffes, buffalo and smaller ones like porcupines, honey badgers, and aardvarks. Although the animals stay away from humans and hide in the thick rainforest, you may be lucky enough to see elusive creatures such as blue monkeys, colobus monkeys, galago, four-striped grass mouse, white-necked raven, bush baby in addition to the more commonly found lions, rhinos, and leopards on Kilimanjaro.