A Preliminary Survey of Medium- and Large-Sized Mammals and Their Conservation Status in the Asimba Forest Priority Area, Semiarid Highlands of Northern Ethiopia

Table 4

Comparison of the number of medium- and large-sized mammal species recorded in the Asimba Priority Forest with mammals in other different study sites.

Study sites	Methods used	No. of spp.	References
Asimba Protected Forest (Ethiopia)	Line transect, indirect survey, and questioners	15	This study
Mengaza Communal Forest (Ethiopia)	Line transect and indirect survey	12	[38]
Ingwezi Game Management Project (Zimbabwe)	Camera trap	27	[39]
Lebu Natural Protected Forest (Ethiopia)	Line transect, indirect survey, and questioners	15	[22]
Natural heritage in Sao Paulo (Brazil)	Transects and camera traps	26	[37]
Borena-Sayint National Park (Ethiopia)	Line transect and indirect survey	23	[20]
Varzea and Terra Firme forests (Brazil)	Camera trap	21	[17]
Juchitan, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca (Mexico)	Indirect surveys only	18	[18]
Wacha Protected Forest (Ethiopia)	Line transect and indirect survey	15	[15]
Arawale National Reserve (Kenya)	Line transect only	23	[19]