They occupy a wide range of environment from the edges of the desert to savannah lands and high forests. |
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A family sleeping together is safe from things that go bump in the night, whether imaginary monsters or real predators on the savannah. |
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Together they romp with the animals of the African savannah, particularly the elephants and a trio of cheetah cubs. |
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Its diversified landscape has a rugged relief and is made up of rivers, ponds, meadows and floodplains, gallery forests and savannah. |
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I confess to the herder that I don't really know what a houbara looks like, having only encountered the kori bustard of the savannah. |
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With the first rains, leaves sprout on trees and bushes and the savannah grass grows to several yards within a few months. |
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Two men in safari suits would vroom their jeep onto the savannah or the prairie. |
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All carnivores would be in one zone, and a miniature savannah with deer, rhino, elephant, giraffe and hippo forming another. |
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Certainly the re-creation of natural habitats, from the African savannah to the Asian wetlands and Australia's variety, is exceptional. |
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About 98 per cent of all fires in the savannah region are unplanned and unmanaged. |
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It has an incredible biodiversity including savannah, grasslands, thornveld and tall acacia trees. |
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The sun is setting over the monotonous green of the tropical plains, sculpting in bronze the creatures that cross the savannah. |
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The large bur oak trees were the most striking feature of the oak savannah community. |
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The long legs of the maned wolf allow it to see better in the tall grasses of the savannah. |
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The maned wolf, a solitary denizen of South America's savannah grasslands, is the continent's largest wild canid, by far. |
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Rainfall in the savannah region usually arrives between November and April in heavy bursts from monsoonal depressions or tropical cyclones. |
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The terrain thus varies from coastal swamps and tropical forest in the south, to savannah and semi-desert in the north. |
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The worst would be to continue and to have to repair a blown up tyre or a breakdown somewhere in the savannah at night. |
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In Africa, at present only 10 per cent of the 400 million hectares of savannah from Senegal to South Africa were productive. |
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Obviously, we no longer live in the savannah, at least not those of us who live in Quebec or the rest of Canada. |
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But it's also enabled us to overpopulate and pollute in a way that we never could have managed when we were wandering around the African savannah. |
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Numerous little paths lined by prickly shrubs and stones crisscross the red brown savannah, above shines the relentless sun. |
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Protected from the wind by large trees and thick bushes, with a good view over the savannah, this is an ideal spot to stop and make camp. |
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The transition zone between the tropical rain forest and the savannah is most suitable for its production. |
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Mostly covered by lush jungles or dry savannah and bursting with life, young planets settled by Exodites were not as paradisiac as they seemed. |
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And what is the point of protecting, say, a stretch of African savannah if the local population can simply chop down trees further away? |
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About 10,000 years ago, the barren Sahara was a green savannah, crawling with crocodiles, giraffes and elephants. |
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Urban demand for bush meat has led to the endangerment of many animal species living in the forests and in the savannah. |
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I am picturing a small group of humanoids moving across the savannah in the Great Lakes region of Africa. |
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Of course, humanity has undergone spectacular developments since it roamed the African savannah. |
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Until then, Brazil's savannah with its acid, nutrient-poor soil had been thought impossible to cultivate. |
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The forests are perennial, the savannah is perennial, so long as humans don't destroy these lands. |
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Currently this activity is often carried out in savannah areas and thus has little effect on the forest cover. |
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Long and flexible, this bone stretches and contracts like a spring as it sprints across the savannah. |
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Sailing through the savannah in a Safari truck, the driver is careful to not disturb wildlife. |
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Ximenia oil is extracted from the kernel of a fruit that grows on a thorn bush on the African savannah, from Namibia to Zimbabwe. |
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My family's savannah cat just gave birth to a litter of four kittens. |
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But then the Sahara dried out, turning from a green savannah into an inhospitable desert. |
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A good example is the savannah monitor, an African monitor lizard weighing about ten pounds, which spends most of its day patrolling its territory for tasty insects. |
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Like lions on the savannah and tigers in the jungle, compared to them, humans are huge, brutish, stupid things, blundering about life in the most destructive way possible. |
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Next year she sets off for Mount Roraima, a 280 square metre plateau, overlooking the savannah and straddling the borders of Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil. |
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The Gambia used to be covered in a mosaic of savannah woodland with patches of gallery forest, but much of this natural landscape has disappeared. |
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Situated between South Africa and Mozambique, is a beautiful land of diverse eco-systems that combines mountains, gorges and rolling savannah flatlands. |
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The movement of the monsoon trough, or intertropical convergence zone, brings rainy seasons to savannah climes. |
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Research suggests that good farming practice can result in an increase in carbon trapped in organic matter in the soil, in some cases even when grazing land or savannah is planted. |
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They have actually diversified their livelihoods by practising extensive or semi-extensive herding an appropriate way of living in this region of erratic and low rainfall, where the savannah offers grazing opportunities. |
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Herptile abundance and diversity in response to seasonal burning on a central Texas ashe juniper-live oak savannah. |
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It is particularly harsh in the northern savannah and in the rural forest. |
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This consists of burning the forest or savannah. |
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It is also believed that the area was more of a savannah during glacial times, but it is believed that the area is quite the same. |
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The coat pattern has been claimed to serve as camouflage in the light and shade patterns of savannah woodlands. |
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Sierra Leone has a tropical climate, with a diverse environment ranging from savannah to rainforests. |
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North of the Rupununi River lies the Rupununi savannah, south of which lie the Kanuku Mountains. |
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Tropical savannah is mostly found in the southern part of the state, mixed in with areas of rainforest. |
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Sahel savannah consists of patches of grass and sand, found in the northeast. |
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The country is mostly savannah, although the moist and mountainous eastern highlands support areas of tropical evergreen and hardwood forests. |
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The savannah valley is shadeless, spotted only with the thorny ravel of mesquite bushes. |
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More importantly, he has shown that the joy of sport can bring a community together, whether one lives on the Manitoba prairie or on the African savannah. |
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The zoo also received savannah and desert monitors, Brandt's hedgehogs, black swans, jackals, sika deers and Barbary sheep. |
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But I had the chance to see the sunset on the savannah. |
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At other times the kitten lies in wait on the vast savannah that is our garden, before spotting her mother and flying at her as if she was a wounded gnu. |
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Panicum maximum is one of the most common and wide spread grasses in the derived savannah region of Nigeria. |
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The designers let their imaginations roam from the treetops to the savannah to the ocean depths, building a bestiary of living machines that escape the confines of the workshop to populate this area under redevelopment. |
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Nearby, a marsh wren chitters in a tree and a savannah sparrow settles in below it. |
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Most of its population lives on the coast, so as soon as you head south you're surrounded by millions of acres of pristine rainforest and savannah. |
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Last year, your correspondent met David Matwok, a young militiaman in the pay of Sudan's Arab government, who was lying on his back on the savannah with both legs broken by bullets. |
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It consists primarily of swamp forest with inclusions of riparian forest and mixed-species lowland forest on terra firma islands and savannah patches. |
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It is believed that the animals that were able to cross the land bridge were savannah animals as the rain forest animals would not be able to cross Central America. |
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The climate is cooler in the savannah grasslands around the capital city, Nairobi, and especially closer to Mount Kenya, which has snow permanently on its peaks. |
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During this time, tropical plants disappeared and were replaced by arid C4 plants, and a dry savannah emerged across eastern and northern Africa and western India. |
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Determination of acid phosphatase and dehydrogenase activities in the rhizosphere of nodulated legume species native to two contrasting savannah sites in Venezuela. |
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Sudan savannah is similar but with shorter grasses and shorter trees. |
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