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| Subspecies: | Unknown |
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| CITES Status: | NOT LISTED |
| IUCN Status: | Least Concern |
| U.S. ESA Status: | NOT LISTED |
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| Jumping Ability: | (Horizontal) |
| Life Span: | in the Wild |
| Life Span: | in Captivity |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Females) |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Males) |
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Habitat:
It lives in savanna, agricultural areas, secondary vegetation with tall herbaceous vegetation, and marshy areas. It does not normally live in forest, but spreads rapidly along roads in forested areas in Central Africa, but not in West Africa. It breeds in puddles, ditches and ruts, preferring very small, temporary waterbodies, and it is not generally found large ponds.
Range:
This species ranges very widely in sub-Saharan Africa in the savannah zone surrounding the forest belt, from Senegal and Gambia east to Kenya and south to Angola, northern Botswana, Zimbabwe, northern and eastern South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique. It has not been recorded from Burkina Faso, Sudan, Rwanda and Burundi, but is possibly present in these countries (J.M. Dehling pers. comm., Oct. 2015), and it might also occur in Niger. It occurs from sea level up to over 2,000m.
Conservation:
It occurs in many protected areas.