IUCN threat status:

Least Concern (LC)

Distribution

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The ratel is found all across Africa, the Middle East, and India, but it does not live in deserts where the climate is hot and arid, and nor in equatorial jungles that are too wet and too dense. (Killingly and Long, 1983)

 

Biogeographic Regions: Oriental; Oriental :: Native; Ethiopian; Ethiopian :: Native

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