About the Authors

Paola Bouley

Contributed equally to this work with: Paola Bouley, Antonio Paulo, Mercia Angela, Cole Du Plessis, David G. Marneweck

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

seagoose1@protonmail.com

Affiliation Department of Conservation, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Antonio Paulo

Contributed equally to this work with: Paola Bouley, Antonio Paulo, Mercia Angela, Cole Du Plessis, David G. Marneweck

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Conservation, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Mercia Angela

Contributed equally to this work with: Paola Bouley, Antonio Paulo, Mercia Angela, Cole Du Plessis, David G. Marneweck

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Conservation, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Cole Du Plessis

Contributed equally to this work with: Paola Bouley, Antonio Paulo, Mercia Angela, Cole Du Plessis, David G. Marneweck

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Carnivore Conservation Programme, Endangered Wildlife Trust, Johannesburg, South Africa

David G. Marneweck

Contributed equally to this work with: Paola Bouley, Antonio Paulo, Mercia Angela, Cole Du Plessis, David G. Marneweck

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nature Conservation Management, Natural Resource Science and Management Cluster, Faculty of Science, Nelson Mandela University, George, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.