Savanna Africa

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Savanna-Africa-

• By Lauren Townsend Anna Gibb

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Location

• Southeast Asia
• Central America
• Central and Eastern Affrica

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Animals

• Hyenas
• Are social carnivores and live in groups called
  clans
• Clans range from 5-100 hyenas
• About 50 of hyena cubs die before 2nd B-day

Hyena Pictures- http//www.wildlife-pictures-onlin
e.com/hyena-pictures1.html
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• Elephants

Savanna Animals http//www.blueplanetbiomes.org/sa
vanna_animal_page.htm
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• Cattle

Cattle- http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle
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• Lions
• Full grown males can weigh up to 400 lbs. and
  measure up to 10 ft. in length

Pictures of Lions- http//www.northrup.org/photos/
lion/
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• Giraffes
• - Tallest of all land-living animal species
• -males can be up to 16-18 ft. tall and weigh up
  to 3,000 lbs.
• - Heart weighs up to 24lbs.

Pictures of Giraffes- http//www.northrup.org/phot
os/giraffe/
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Plants

• Bloated Baobab

Africas Weirdest Tree- http//www.encounter.co.za
/article/8.html
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• Paragrass

Paragrass-http//www.archbold-station.org/abs/land
manage/ExoticsGrant03/ExoticsMain/paragrass.htm
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• Growing Creepers

Trumpet creeper- http//www.forestryimages.org/bro
wse/detail.cfm?imgnum1120401
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• Pangola grass

Pangola Grass- http//www.tropicalgrasslands.asn.a
u/pastures/pangola.htm
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Climate

• Temperature Range Avg. 64 -75 degrees
  Fahrenheit.
• Due to the long hot seasons, the sun creats a
  brick hard layer im

Sun- http//www.solarviews.com/eng/sun.htm
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• Precipitation 30 50 inches per year

Rain- http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain
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Special features

• In driest grasslands only grasses survive
• For at least 5 months of the year, less than 4
  in. of rain a month are received
• Winter doesnt exist!!!!
• Sun rises and sets at about the same time
  everyday of the year.
• Between latitude 15 degrees North and 30 degrees
  S and longitude 15 degrees W and 40 degrees West

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Special Features Contd

• Rainy seasons begin in May and end in November
• Dry seasons begin in October and ends in March in
  the southern hemisphere and from April to
  September in the Northern
• Some kinds of trees have thick fire resistant
  bark on them
• Ostriches can run as fast as 31 miles per hour to
  escape predators