Species distribution and relative abundance
The distributional pattern of mammals in the current study area varied across the study habitats. About 90% of the species were observed in both open grassland (9 species) and natural forest (9 species) and least species in human plantation (3 species). However, it was not statistically significant (χ2 =3.000, df = 2, p= 0.223). The overall difference in abundance of medium and large mammal species among three habitats was not statistically significant (χ2 =6.000, df =2, p=0.199). But, Natural forest harbored more mammalian records (424) followed by open grassland (114) and the least was in human plantation (15). Certain species were also limited to specific habitat type. For instance,Colobus guereza and Leptus starcki were only recorded from natural forest and open grassland respectively. Among the 10 recorded species of mammals, Chlorocebus aethiops (42.9%) was the most abundant mammalian species followed by Colobus guereza (22.2%).Leptus starcki (1.6%), Traglaphus scriptus (2.9%),Crocuta crocuta (3.3%) were the least abundant species (Table 2).