The park is the best place in the world to see the 'big five'. The 'big five' - the lion, the leopard, the buffalo, the rhino and the elephant. The park has lots of lions and you can bumped into a pride almost every you take a game drive. Lions are the biggest cat in Africa and the only cat bigger than them in the world is the tiger. 

The park also houses plenty of herbivores. You will see a gazelle, an impala, a zebra or an antelope in every square feet of the park, chances of them getting killed by a carnivore is much higher then them dying a natural death. Each cat has its favourite prey and hence each herbivore has its deadliest enemy. The thomson's gazelle is the fastest of all herbivores. At 60 mph, it can easily outrun all the cats except of course the cheetah. The park has wide varieties of antelopes from the dikdik, the smallest antelope in the world, to the eland, the biggest. Dikdiks are actually captured alive by the lions and they use them to teach their cubs the art of hunting.

The park also has a few hippo pools and a crocodile pool. The crocodiles can survive upto 2 years without food. They swallow stones during the extended famine. They regurgitate the stones once the food becomes available. Among the birds there are the ostriches - the biggest bird, the kori bustard - the biggest flying bird, the vultures, the eagles, the kites and the crowned crane - the national bird of Uganda.

The camping in this park, unlike the smaller ones, is generally inside its boundaries. Sleeping in the wild with constant growling of the lions and munching of the giraffes and buffalos must be an experience of one's lifetime.