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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:
Restricted to high-altitude grasslands, scrub and forested kloofs in the Nama-Karoo and Grassland biomes of South Africa. C. s. shortridgei occurs in Escarpment Mountain Renosterveld. C. s. sclateri and C. s. guillarmodi in South-eastern Mountain Grassland with marginal intrusion into Wet Cold Highveld Grassland. C. s. montana is known from only North-eastern Mountain Grassland where it favours scrub and thickets in kloofs rather than valley grasslands where A. septentrionalis is the dominant species.
Range:
This species occurs in South Africa and Lesotho. Restricted to montane habitats from Beaufort West and Sutherland in Western Cape north-eastwards to the Drakenberg mountains of Eastern Cape, western KwaZulu-Natal and southern Mpumalanga, and the Maluti Mountains of Lesotho and western Free State. Distributional limits of the four subspecies are unclear owing to poor geographic sampling, but their known ranges are separated by seemingly inhospitable habitat suggesting that they may be geographically isolated (Bronner 1995).
Conservation:
Recorded from the UKhahlamba/Drakensberg Park (KwaZulu-Natal), Karoo National Park (Western Cape), Golden Gate National Park (Free State) as well as the Lesotho National Park. The species is not thought to be threatened by human actions.