Native to Africa, caracals are medium-sized ... these herbivores play an important role in keeping grass low and otherwise maintaining the savanna ecosystem for other local animals.

A complex communal system determines where livestock grazes, who cuts grass, and when. As a result this landscape one-sixth the size of Nairobi is among East Africa’s healthiest. Nearly a ...

Most animals living on savanna ... part of Africa lying in the rainshadow to the east and south of the great domed-up Rift Valley." These open spaces were a source of roots, shrubs, grasses ...

It’s a great resource for introducing African ecology to a wide readership. I do hope that those writers of textbooks far from the world of grasses and grazers will take note of this rich account of ...

Repetitive dry season fires have occurred in the African savanna over the last 50,000 years. Fire plays a major role in the balance between trees and grasses in savannas. With long periods between ...

On the other hand, African savanna elephants form large herds that ... including leaves, grasses, seeds, and tree bark. The animals also gather at watering holes and soil mounds that are rich ...

Ferne Corrigan looks in-depth at the climate of the African savanna grasslands ... shifts to the unique features of different types of grass, along with the survival skills developed and ...

Twenty years ago, Dinokeng Game Reserve was a savanna and grassland area owned by livestock and crop farmers about 30 minutes ...

But when you think of a rhino you think of the large horn on its head. Some rhinos have two horns with the first horn much ...

Daily, an elephant must consume roughly 350 pounds of grass. African savanna elephants are another name for African bush ...

rather than true savanna grassland. The whole region was, and is, one of the most sparsely populated of the habitable areas of Africa, currently averaging about six people to the square kilometre, or ...

Male forest elephants, like their savanna counterparts ... through seed dispersal and contributing to forest regeneration. African forest elephants feed on leaves, grasses, seeds, fruit, roots and ...