Wildlife of Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone has 15 identified species of primates that include bushbaby, monkeys and a great ape, the common chimpanzee which is Sierra Leone's largest primate. Chimpanzees are found across the country with the 2010 chimpanzee census estimated a wild population in excess of 5500 more than double the number previously thought to live in the country. This is the second largest population of the endangered subspecies of western chimpanzee, after Guinea,
with the largest density in the Loma area, 2.69 individuals per km2, and the Outamba, with 1.21 individuals per km2.
Mammals of Olympic National Park
The elk, or wapiti ("Cervus canadensis"), is one of the largest species of deer in the world and one of the largest mammals in North America and eastern Asia. In the deer family (Cervidae), only the moose, "Alces alces" (called an "elk" in Europe), is larger, and "Cervus unicolor" (the sambar deer) can rival the "C. canadensis" elk in size. Elk range in forest and forest-edge habitat, feeding on grasses, plants, leaves, and bark.