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Affiliations

• ¹ Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. [email protected].
• ² College of Forestry, Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda, Uttar Pradesh, India.
• ³ Department of Animal Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
• ⁴ Department of Wildlife Ecology and Management, Faculty of Forestry, Duzce University, Duzce, Turkey.
• ⁵ Institute of Zoology, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
• ⁶ Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan, Astana, Kazakhstan.
• ⁷ Ilbirs Foundation, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
• ⁸ Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ⁹ Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.