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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) |
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Habitat:
Occurs in well-drained soils at high-altitudes, from 1,700-3,500 m a.s.l. Widespread in montane grasslands, bamboo thickets and ericaceous vegetation, as well as Podocarpus and Hagenia/Hypericum woodlands. Prefer light soils with sparse vegetation cover. Less common in heavily grazed grasslands above 3,000 m; avoids exotic plantations (Duncan and Wrangham 1971, Bronner 2013).
Range:
Distribution disjunct and largely restricted to mountain ranges. Known from scattered localities in central and eastern Africa, with a relict population in Cameroon. C. s. stuhlmanni known from Ruwenzori Mountains along border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, southwards to Rutshuru and Rukiga district of Rwanda. C. s. fosteri recorded from Mt. Elgon, Uganda and Cherangani Hills, Kenya. C. s. tropicalis ocurs in the Uluguru mountains and Rungwe district, Tanzania. C. s. balsaci Lamotte & Petter, 1981, reported from only Mt. Oku, Cameroon (Bronner 2013). Specimens at the Berlin Naturkundemuseum demonstrate habitat occupied by C. stuhlmanni south of Lake Victoria (Asher 2010), extending as far south as northern Angola.
Conservation:
Present in a number of protected areas across its range.