Acknowledgements
This project was funded through a British Ecological Society Research
grant (4849/5889) and Severo Ochoa grants (MicroP_SO_14 and
MicroProy_SO_15) from the EBD-CSIC. OR was funded through a Natural
Environment Research Council Independent Research Fellowship
(NE/M018660/1) and University of Stirling Impact Fellowship. We are
grateful to Neguse Engda, Ziyad Jemal and Dessiew Gelaw for help with
fieldwork, and Laura Kubasiewicz and Juan Luís García-Mudarra of the
Molecular Ecology lab LEM-EBD for carrying out the lab work. Research
and export permits were granted by the Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation
Authority (EWCA) with the help of Prof Afework Bekele (Addis Ababa
University). We thank the wardens and experts of Bale Mountains National
Park, Arsi Mountains National Park, Simien Mountains National Park, Aboy
Gara Community Conservation and Guassa Community Based Conservation
Area. The following people and organisations facilitated the fieldwork
in Ethiopia: Isabel Cantero (CSIC and Addis Ababa University), Claudio
Sillero and the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation project, Karen Laurenson and
Frankfurt Zoological Society-Ethiopia (FZS-ETH), Spanish Embassy in
Ethiopia, Guy and Yvonne Levene of Bale Mountain Lodge, Guassa Lodge,
and Manner Tour Car Rental and car drivers.