Southern African Hedgehog - Atelerix frontalis
( A. Smith, 1831 )

 

 

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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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Life Span: in the Wild
Life Span: in Captivity

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Habitat:
It is found in a wide variety of semi-arid and subtemperate habitats. Animals have generally been recorded from scrub brush, western Karoo, grassland and suburban gardens (Skinner and Chimimba 2005).

Range:
This southern African species ranges from southwestern Angola in the west, through northwestern and central Namibia, eastern Botswana, much of South Africa (throughout Gauteng and North West Province, western Limpopo Province and Mpumalanga, and throughout Free State; in the Northern Cape they occur in the northeast and southwards towards the Grahamstown district in Eastern Cape), western Zimbabwe, and perhaps occurring marginally in Lesotho (Skinner and Chimimba 2005).

Conservation:
It has been recorded from a number of protected areas.

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