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| Simo, F.T.; Difouo, G.F.; Kekeunou, S.; Ingram, D.J.; Kirsten, I.; Olson, D. | |
| African golden cat and serval in forest-savannah transitions in Cameroon | |
| 2021 African Journal of Ecology (59): 1063-1069 | |
African golden cats (_Caracal aurata_ Temminck, 1827; hereafter, 'golden cat') occur in the forests and forest-savannah mosaics (hereafter, 'FSM') of West and Central Africa (Bahaa-el-din et al., 2015). Another medium-sized wild felid, the serval (_Leptailurus _[Caracal] _serval _Schreber, 1776), occurs in well-watered savannah and long-grass environments that are widespread across subSaharan Africa (Figure 1a; Thiel, 2019). Golden cats and servals are closely related felids (Johnson et al., 2006), deriving from a common ancestor approximately 5.4 million years ago (O'Brien & Johnson, 2007). They are known to be sympatric only within a small portion of their collective geographic range, including in the Central African Republic (Hickisch & Aebischer, 2013), in the FSM of the western Congo Basin (Henschel et al., 2014) and in Uganda (Mills et al., 2019). |
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