savanna
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Kio, whom director Favreau and company begin following when he’s eight weeks old, is a tenacious fellow and there’s never any question that life on the savanna is harsh, severe and can be very brief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Central Brazil's vast Cerrado savanna, however, "kept burning" at similar rates, Alencar said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Nonprofits and conservation groups estimate that there are today around 415,000 elephants in Africa, and the African savanna elephant is listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
"These centuries-old stories provide us a rare glimpse into the past, and that the past was a savanna past, not a forested past," Nerlekar said.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2026
The same is true of the Beni savanna, it seems, with its different complement of species.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Capybaras aren’t native to Mexico; they are South American, occupying savannas and vegetated areas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
In both public perception and official policy, savannas in India and elsewhere have often been labeled "wastelands."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2026
The scale of the increase varied across the four different biomes surveyed, with the sharpest rise in tropical savannas.
From Barron's ● Jan. 6, 2026
This giraffe lives in the open savannas and wooded grasslands of Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2025
The isthmus is a medley of mountains, beaches, wet tropical forests, and dry savannas, and is the most ecologically diverse area in Mesoamerica.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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