About the Authors

Themb’alilahlwa A. M. Mahlaba

tmahlaba@uniswa.sz

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Swaziland, Private Bag 4, Kwaluseni, Swaziland

Ara Monadjem

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Swaziland, Private Bag 4, Kwaluseni, Swaziland, Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag 20, Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa

Robert McCleery

Affiliation Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

Steven R. Belmain

Affiliation Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Chatham Maritime, Kent, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: TAMM AM RM SRB. Data curation: TAMM AM RM SRB. Formal analysis: TAMM AM RM SRB. Funding acquisition: TAMM AM SRB. Investigation: TAMM AM RM SRB. Methodology: TAMM AM RM SRB. Project administration: TAMM AM SRB. Resources: TAMM AM RM SRB. Software: TAMM AM RM SRB. Supervision: SRB. Validation: TAMM AM RM SRB. Visualization: TAMM AM RM SRB. Writing – original draft: TAMM AM RM SRB. Writing – review & editing: TAMM AM RM SRB.