savannahs

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Although the analysis shows that grasslands and savannahs were important components of early human habitats, it places humans into a wide spectrum of environments, and in many cases environments with varied vegetation composition.

From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2023

Otherwise-tropical areas can experience drying, causing rivers to disappear, lakes to turn into swamps, jungles into savannahs, and grasslands into deserts.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Since then there have been efforts to reintroduce these cats to India’s savannahs.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2022

However, in African savannahs the number of wildfires decreased over the same period, because of land use changes, including the expansion of farming.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2022

Twenty million years ago, our immediate ancestors probably still lived in the trees, later descending because the forests receded during a major ice age and were replaced by grassy savannahs.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan