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
Although some savanna areas saw increases due to shrub growth, these gains were far too small to balance the losses.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026
The centerpiece of the 13-acre-plus parkland is a curved bridge overlooking a savanna, allowing elephants to walk under guests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
During the dry season the water evaporates and the Beni becomes a hot, arid savanna, kept open by annual burning.
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
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
Set in the Llanos de Moxos, a vast network of savannas, gallery forests, and floodplains that make up the largest wetland system in the Amazon basin, this area has inspired curiosity for centuries.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2025
"We must act to save our rivers, oceans, savannas, mangroves and forests, as well as the communities that protect and live alongside them," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2024
While the savannas and mangroves of coastal southern New Guinea are fairly similar to those of northern Australia, other habitats of the hemi-continents differ in almost all major respects.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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