Jackson's Praomys in Nyungwe National Park

Praomys jacksoni

Chance of an encounter
Very likely

Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Nyungwe National Park, aggregated onto a 25 km grid. A cell is matched by its centre, which can sit up to 16 km outside the boundary, so this covers the surrounding country too.

Occurrence records measure where people looked and found something, which is not the same as where the animal is. This is a relative likelihood, not a probability.

When it has been recorded here

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Records exist for April, May, July, August and October, with the widest coverage in April, May, July and October. A quiet month can mean the animal was absent, or that nobody was looking.

The evidence here

Grid cells
4
Records
313
Cell size
25 km
Years covered
1981 to 2012

A grid cell is a square of the map, not a sighting: 4 squares of 25 km carry records for Jackson's Praomys in and around Nyungwe National Park, and the 313 records behind them were collected by other people and published openly. Nothing here counts animals, and a place with more records is not always a place with more animals.

About the Jackson's Praomys

Mount Kenya, Mahale Mountains and Aberdare National Park are the three atlas places where Jackson's Praomys is recorded. Records of this mammal gather most thickly in Congo - Kinshasa, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi and Tanzania. The atlas holds 9,470 records of the species across ten countries.

Of the 21 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Nyungwe National Park, the Jackson's Praomys is the 6th most recorded.

The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded