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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 is found primarily in dense undergrowth of rainforest, but also in farm bush, logged forest and plantations. In Côte d’Ivoire, it is also found in humid savanna zone, and in gallery forests of savanna, and in Ghana found on the Accra Plain (observed foraging in a dry open area of grassland and thicket; Goldman and Dunham 2013).
Range:
This species is restricted to the rainforests of southwest and southeast Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, and extending just east of R. Volta (Goldman and Dunham 2013). It ranges from sea level to around 1,000 m asl in Sierra Leone (Gilchrist et al. 2009) and 1,500 m asl on Mt Nimba in Guinea (Goldman and Dunham 2013).
Conservation:
It is present in several protected areas across the range, including Mt Sangbé, Maraouhé and Comoé National Parks in Côte d’Ivoire and Western Area Forest Reserve in Sierra Leone (Goldman and Dunham 2013).