One of the most famous African savannas is Serengeti National ... for tall plants such as trees to grow. Grasses and trees that grow in the savanna have adapted to life with little water and ...

The tree-climbing anatomy of africanus has prompted Tobias, long a savanna loyalist, to wonder why such an animal would be out on the South African veld, where today there aren’t any trees big enough ...

Elephants, the largest land mammals, possess remarkable intelligence and play crucial roles in their ecosystems.

The savanna was a woodland with extensive ... zebra − they turned to a new source of food: the African buffalo. Buffalo don’t rely on trees to protect them. They stand their ground and try ...

DavidB, The chimps were OBSERVED for 15 months to see if thousands of years of living on the savanna had produced more/less bipedal behaviour than in chimps living in denser forest. The 15 months ...

It’s the finding of a new study showing how the disruption of one tiny mutual relationship on the African savanna has big impacts ... protect whistling thorn trees (SN: 6/15/10).

A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like calls for each other that resemble human names — a finding that potentially "radically expands the express ...