 It inhabits a broad variety of habitats, especially in hilly and mountainous landscapes such as the Hoggar Mountains.In deserts such as the Sahara, it occurs at much lower densities.It ranges across the area north of the Sahara from Morocco to Egypt and inhabits the tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands south of the Sahara from Mauritania to the Horn of Africa, including Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Sudan.