@article{evaluatingdeeplearningmodelsforafricanwi, title = {Evaluating Deep Learning Models for African Wildlife Image Classification: From DenseNet to Vision Transformers}, author = {Lukman Jibril Aliyu and Umar Sani Muhammad and Bilqisu Ismail and Nasiru Muhammad and Almustapha A Wakili and Seid Muhie Yimam and Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad and Mustapha Abdullahi}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2507.21364}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21364}, }