savannas

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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

Ancient stories, poems, and songs may hold clues to how vast savannas and grasslands formed and endured across the region.

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

Living on this artificial inland archipelago, native peoples ate a diet heavy in fish, which migrate and spawn in the flooded savannas.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann