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 ...

When properly managed, savannas like the Serengeti are capable of capturing at least as much carbon as tropical rainforests.

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 ...

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).

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 ...

African savanna elephants are losing space ... all these warts and knots and nooks and crannies start forming on the trees. So a tree becomes a cavernous thing full of lots of little places ...