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Northern migratory species winter in the savanna, such as spotted sandpiper Actitis macularia, barn swallow Hirundo rustica and blackpoll warbler Dendroica striata. Canaima National Park, Venezuela
Although the zebra long since retired to that savannah in the sky, and his owner herself is more than 30 years gone, the eccentric Winmill might be gratified to know that her phaetons and surreys, curricles and landaulets still command attention.
Scattered trees, mainly acacias and junipers, dot the savanna.
Even the ostrich squawk as they make their way across the sandvelt to open marshlands and savannahs dotted with acacia, baobab trees and wild sage bushes.
The aerie overlooked a savannah of cubicles with shelves lined with gizmos, yurtlike conference rooms, and countless microkitchens equipped with goodie-stuffed fridges and high-end espresso machines. In the Plex

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This form developed bipedalism and other adaptations to the newly opening arid savannah landscape and eventually became the ancestor of man.
As has been argued previously, savannas may represent a unique biome where predictions developed for grasslands or forests may not directly apply, and more research into the dynamics of these interesting biomes is clearly needed.
The kingela tree found in the savanna is fast-growing and is therefore a symbol of fertility for the Nkanu.
They went to Savannah, to the live-oaks and palmettoes and quiet old squares. The Job An American Novel
The area supports a number of species locally threatened or at their biogeographic limits, including golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, prairie falcon Falco mexicanus, ferruginous hawk Buteo regalis, loggerhead shrike Lanius ludovicianus, merlin Falco columbarius, Brewers sparrow Spizella breweri and grasshopper sparrow Ammodramus savannarum. Dinosaur Provincial Park, Canada
To find the snakes, he wades - barefoot - in the knee-deep water of the Venezuelan llanos, the lowland savannah that is flooded each year during rainy season.
Scattered trees, mainly acacias and junipers, dot the savanna.
Habitats in tropical and subtropical mountain forest, coniferous forest, forest edge grass, bamboo forest or savanna.
The whole of the savanna was a miry and quaking bog, until the partial draining operations of the State, effected a year ago, [in 1855.] Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands
My family's savannah cat just gave birth to a litter of four kittens.
Rwanda is known as Africa's Tibet: As far as the eye can see, there are green hills and banana trees rather than typical African savannas.
On a July morning in the llanos, or savannas, of Venezuela, the air is muggy and thick with mosquitoes.
To lure them from the dense woody thickets scattered through the arid open savannas, he used the ultimate bait: the ‘plaintive bleat of a wounded baby buffalo.’
At that time, the lowland savannas were settled by large numbers of farmer-herders who were ancestors to present-day Luo and Kipsigis.
The upland natural vegetation in this dry-subhumid area is mostly mixed grass prairie, but mesquite – buffalograss and shinnery are native, respectively, to the south and to sandy areas; potential natural vegetation is distinct from the short grass prairie of the semiarid High Plains (25), the tall grass prairie of Ecoregions 28 and 40, and the oak savanna of the Cross Timbers (29). Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)
If you have an average level of fitness, that's approximately the length of time it would take you to do two laps of Savannah if you are running.
Yet, some of these species have also been reported in other habitats; for instance, P. cancrivorus is common in savanna forests, far from mangrove stands, and D. petechia can be found in grasslands and rain forests. Coastal Venezuelan mangroves
She said her boyfriend doted on baby Savannah and was a good father.
One-quarter of the territory endures practically in its wild state with rainforests, dry tropical forest, and savannas.
With his travelling companions he stood on a hill looking down on the savannah stretching to the far horizon, gigantic herds of gazelle, antelope, gnu, zebra, and warthog grazing and moving forwards like slow rivers.
The title celebrates Savannah, and the cookie celebrates the great mood that we are all in this year of the girl, our 100th anniversary," said Amanda Hamaker, manager of product sales for Girl Scouts of the USA. Reuters: Press Release
The savanna is broken by gallery forests which extend up mountainside ravines between 1,000 m and 1,600 m. Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
Self-patterning of vegetation has been identified in dryland ecosystems worldwide, such as the “tiger striped” savanna of the African Sahel and the banded shrublands of Australia. Hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Vegetation Self-Patterning Presentation
At a school in Savannakhet's Atsaphangthong district, UXO Lao staffers lead elementary and middle school children in songs about the dangers of unexploded ordnance and put on a puppet show about a little boy who loses an eye in a bombie explosion. USATODAY.com - 30-year-old bombs still very deadly in Laos
Birds of concern include the brown pelican, lesser tern, osprey, black rail, clapper rail, California gnatcatcher and savannah sparrow. Southern California Coast (Bailey)
Daughmer Savannah, Crawford County, Ohio is the largest and best preserved remnant of the unplowed, deep soil prairies and savannahs that were present at the easternmost extension of the Prairie Peninsula prior to European settlement.
Gerald, penniless, had raised Tara; Ellen had risen above some mysterious sorrow; Grandfather Robillard, surviving the wreck of Napoleon’s throne, had founded his fortunes anew on the fertile Georgia coast; Great-grandfather Prudhomme had carved a small kingdom out of the dark jungles of Haiti, lost it, and lived to see his name honored in Savannah. Gone with the Wind
These soil conditions explain the treeless grassy summits as well as the belt of savanna at 500-550 m around the mountains above which the forests take over The Nimba Mountains have great topographical diversity, with valleys, plateaux, rounded hilltops, rocky peaks, abrupt cliffs, waterfalls and bare granite blocks; the whole area being a vast water catchment and reservoir. Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
The savanna is also the home of meat - eaters — the lion, leopard, and hyena who feed on the grasseaters.
Subtropical deserts and tropical savannahs and rainforests have similarly expanded and contracted, imposing their morphogenetic overprint on older landscapes.
In the 1990's a number of residential projects in cismontane oak savannahs and open mixed chaparral habitats are likely to endanger some back country populations of this inconspicuous annual.
The rest is wooded savanna, river valleys, and a small coastal plain.
Even the ostrich squawk as they make their way across the sandvelt to open marshlands and savannahs dotted with acacia, baobab trees and wild sage bushes.
"We are absolutely thrilled," says the Savannah breeder who owns the Californian-based pet shop with her husband Lee.
The dwellers of Nchubula in Kopa west are privileged to have before them the virgin vastness of flat savannah land watered by the Munikashi river that pours into Bangweulu river.
An explosion and fire at a sprawling sugar refinery rattled this Savannah suburb Thursday night, severe-ly injuring dozens of people.
Most upland areas are covered by subclimax pine forest, which has an understory of grasses and sedges called savannas. Outer Coastal Plain Mixed Forest Province (Bailey)
She worked in the tax assessor's office in Savannah. Times, Sunday Times
When I was a girl, I had dreamed of a wedding in our church of Savannah, my father taking me down the aisle way and my sister my maid of honor, my mother of course the hostess for she held the finest cotillions in all of Georgia.
Tropical savannahs cover 1.9 million square kilometres - that's about a quarter of mainland Australia.
The region encompasses a variety of vegetation types including dense lowland rain forest, dense submontane rain forest, open-canopy submontane rain forest, and woodland savanna. Madeira-Tapajós moist forests
They can be found in a rich assemblage of habitats from rivers to caves, savannas, wetlands, prairies, lakeshores, and forests.
His Shibboleth was, that the disgrace of the State must be wiped out by the repeal of the Yazoo Act; and _repeal_ rang from every mouth, from Savannah to the mountains. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest
Anthills of the Savannah thereby thematizes it own immanent limitation as representation of reality and capsule of ideas.
Many Savannah State students say an awareness of their heritage is one of the school's biggest selling points.
Nigeria has three main environmental regions: savanna, tropical forests, and coastal wetlands.
When Mrs. Wardman gives the class a spelling test that asks, "Lions live in the J--," he calls her over to his desk and asks her if it was a trick question, since lions live in the Savannah and "there's no J word for Savannah. Coach House Books
Sue-Marie inhaled through her teeth, just imagining... Savannah grassland, rhinos, little families of warthog, men with spears... `Mmm! TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS
A biome is a distinctive ecosystem well-adapted for a specific geographic region and climate: tundra, taiga, savanna, your mouth. Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Do you know your microbiome?
They can be found in a rich assemblage of habitats from rivers to caves, savannas, wetlands, prairies, lakeshores, and forests.
The earth's remaining wilderness would be in even greater danger if the opening of northern markets were to create a financial incentive for developing nations to replace forests, savannas and wetlands with land-wasting peasant farms.
The cats were getting their own places, too, a savanna for the lions and grottoes with pools for the panthers and tigers.
All carnivores would be in one zone, and a miniature savannah with deer, rhino, elephant, giraffe and hippo forming another.
Mount Kenya is a stunning volcanic mountain that rises from the Kenyan savannah, its flanks brutally carved by aeons of glacial action. Ben Colclough: Mount Kenya -- Is This the Most Beautiful Mountain in Africa?
Amongst other things we saw a cheetah, which is pretty rare, and we also had a good time watching the baboons and warthogs hanging out together on the savannah. Serengeti, ngorongoro crater, and lake manyara
Like lions on the savannah and tigers in the jungle, compared to them, humans are huge, brutish, stupid things, blundering about life in the most destructive way possible.
Among the grasses are numerous forbs and scattered trees of Bombax ceiba a dominant of savanna woodland, Dillenia indica in the swamp forest, Careya arborea and Emblica officinalis. Kaziranga National Park, India
This endangered tropical savanna features an unusual trio of rare mammals the giant anteater, giant armadillo, and maned wolf.
Trauma counseling would follow, but for now, Savannah was fit for admission. SILENT JOE
After stopping back in Savannah to fill-up and to have hamburgers in the car at the local Sonic, we struck out across country on picturesque back roads.
Inselbergs are rock outcrops, several tens to several hundreds of metres high, emerging from savannas or rain forests.
Nowhere in the wild is the maternal instinct more accessible than on the East African savanna, with its panoply of creatures and its wide vistas.
Daughmer Savannah, Crawford County, Ohio is the largest and best preserved remnant of the unplowed, deep soil prairies and savannahs that were present at the easternmost extension of the Prairie Peninsula prior to European settlement.
The majority live in relatively open habitats, such as plains and savannas, but others dwell in forests, and one group is semiaquatic.
Gillmore, who had become the Union's most renowned artillerist after he had forced the capitulation of Fort Pulaski at Savannah in April 1862, brought in heavy weaponry.
From an environmental perspective, however, moving water from one basin to another -- known as interbasin transfers -- permanently erases part of the supply that otherwise is returned to rivers and streams and is damaging to the environment, said Frank Carl, the executive director of Savannah Riverkeeper. AugustaChronicle.com
North of the mountain range is the Oti plateau, a savanna land drained by the river of the same name.
In his sleep he was home under a coconut tree on the Savannah or at Maracas Beach feeling bubbles of foam curling up between his toes.
Wildebeest and hartebeest, which spend the wetter months along the boundary between Ghanzi and Kgalagadi (in the Kalahari Xeric Savanna ecoregion), move northeast towards the Central Kalahari Game Reserve during the dry season. Zambezian halophytics
It was well worth the detour, as they have a very nice museum with impressive mounted skeletons of an entelodont, a towering chalicothere, and some smaller denizens of the Miocene savannah.
The savanna is burned frequently to maintain pasturage for grazing and to keep the land open for hunting. Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras
The stripes represent the three major geographic areas: green for the rain forest, red for the laterite soils of the savanna, and yellow for the sands of the sahel.
To the east of the Futa Jallon is Upper Guinea, a savanna region with plains and river valleys.
This form developed bipedalism and other adaptations to the newly opening arid savannah landscape and eventually became the ancestor of man.
Cleverdon had the longest tenure of office as pastor of First Baptist Church in Savannah - nineteen years.
In Ontario, the bird's-foot violet is found only in the southwest where it grows in several small scattered populations in open black oak savanna habitat.
So he stood waist-deep in the grass and looked regretfully across the rolling savannah and the soft-swelling foothills to the Lion's Head, a massive peak of rock that upreared into the azure from the midmost centre of Guadalcanar, a landmark used for bearings by every coasting mariner, a mountain as yet untrod by the foot of a white man. Chapter 23
The terrain consists of high plateaus, large savannas, and hilly areas; the highest altitude is in the Muchinga Mountains, at 6,000 feet.
The country's flag is a vertical tricolor of orange, white, and green; orange represents the savannahs of the north, green represents the forests of the south, and white represents unity.
The great breadth of this zone of savannahs (from 100 to 120 leagues) renders the denomination of land-strait somewhat improper, at least if it be not geognostically applied to every communication of basins bounded by high Cordilleras. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
A slim, graceful monkey, with long arms and legs, and a fairly flat face, the vervet is sometimes known as a savanna monkey, since it spends most of its time on or near the savanna. How to Speak Dog
Next year she sets off for Mount Roraima, a 280 square metre plateau, overlooking the savannah and straddling the borders of Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil.
These hydromorphic savannas, called veal in the French literature, are commonly saturated for at least six months of the year. Tonle Sap freshwater swamp forests
Uganda's tropical forests, tea plantations, rolling savannahs, and arid plains are home to half of Africa's bird species.
Rwanda is known as Africa's Tibet: As far as the eye can see, there are green hills and banana trees rather than typical African savannas.
“The Saltzburgers went further up the river, and selected a place of settlement, which they called Ebenezer, but the Brethren began immediately their settlement near to Savannah; and God so blessed their industry, that they were not only soon in a capacity of maintaining themselves, but, also, of being serviceable to their neighbors. Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe
The savanna lands (grassy plains) of the northern regions face harmattan (dust-laden) winds for four months each year.
The Madrean encinal, or evergreen oak woodlands, have a mosaic of savannas, denser woodlands, and grassy openings. Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)
A tough palate and lots of viscous saliva enables giraffes to digest acacia thorns with ease, hence their wide distribution in savannah and thick bushveld in sub-Sahara Africa.
The country's flag is a vertical tricolor of orange, white, and green; orange represents the savannahs of the north, green represents the forests of the south, and white represents unity.
A fluffy gray and patches of tall grass help a cub hide on the open savanna.
Just then, one of Roger's posh mates, some poncy Lord dude or other who had spent years on the African savannah saunters past…
Forest elephants were reclassified as an entirely different species of elephant from their African savanna counterparts.
In 1708, the area around their towns consisted of open oak woodlands, savannas, and prairies.
This experimental video was created as a final project for my procedural animation class at Savannah College of Art and Design. scad.edu It was inspired by demoscene and sub-atomic particle collision images. The Origin of Mass on Vimeo
buffaloed" is the term he used, referring to the big-game animal that has been swept from the American savannahs. Ruggles of Red Gap
In Ontario, the bird's-foot violet is found only in the southwest where it grows in several small scattered populations in open black oak savanna habitat.
The rolling hills, cuestas, and ridges of the Western Cross Timbers are naturally covered by oak savanna, scrubby oak forest, and prairie and are underlain by interbedded sandstone, shale, and clay. Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)
The sun is setting over the monotonous green of the tropical plains, sculpting in bronze the creatures that cross the savannah.
The food at Williams's parties was always provided by Savannah's most sought-after cateress, Lucille Wright. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The large intact grasslands of the savanna and surrounding habitats support diverse mammal populations which include giant anteater Myrmecophaga tridactyla (VU), giant armadillo Priodontes maximus (EN), jaguar Panthera onca, puma Puma concolor and Brazilian tapir Tapirus terrestris (VU). Canaima National Park, Venezuela
Green-rumped Parrotlets are small psittacines that inhabit forest edge, savanna, and pastures in northeastern South America.
In all fairness, his preoccupation with glancing around this way and that like an insecure gazelle in an open savanna for his pursuers was justifiable given that he still had not quite yet deciphered where he had ended up.
Turkey Mountain and adjacent slopes (4.04 km2 of apparently unlogged post oak and chinquapin oak savanna) Ozark Mountain forests
Uganda's tropical forests, tea plantations, rolling savannahs, and arid plains are home to half of Africa's bird species.
Savanna animals cool off with a kind of organic radiator by evaporating water from the moist linings of the nasal chambers.
In areas like savannas, where the scrub jays are in close proximity to suburban habitats, house cats are important predators of many bird species as well as herpetofauna.
These include xeromorphic open vegetation with shrubs and trees to 5 m; low forest (7 to 8 m); closed-canopy medium forest with a canopy from 15 to 22 m high; and savanna vegetation. Caqueta moist forests
A good example is the savannah monitor, an African monitor lizard weighing about ten pounds, which spends most of its day patrolling its territory for tasty insects.
There are also clearings covered by grassy savannas, dunes with ammophilous vegetation and salty soils with scrublands or halophilic steppe]] s. Argentine Espinal
One tray, the * - sele, was innovated at least as far back as the proto-Eastern-Savanna Bantu period when it designated a "winnowing basket," while the * - ungo "winnowing/sifting basket" may represent a PNECB innovation from a Mashariki verb that meant "to winnow. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
Lea, a lively and curious lion cub, gallivants all over the savanna until she is frightened by a rhinoceros.
One area within this ecoregion that has been well-studied is the level Casiquiare peneplain (lowland) in Venezuela which hosts a mosaic of forests, savannas, and other types of herbaceous vegetation. Negro-Branco moist forests
For those considering buying Savannah kittens for sale on the internet you should be careful who you buy from.
The town had fewest species, but many of these showed larger numbers here than in the other ecosystems, e.g., semipalmated sandpipers, horned larks, savannah sparrows, white-crowned sparrows, and Lapland longspurs.
The vegetation consists of xenophile forests mixed with palm savannas. Humid Chaco
Instead we are moving the mail over distances of hundreds of miles - over jungled mountains and high palmy savannahs - using high-frequency radio.
They indicated that Big Savannah was completely treeless and supported an unusually dense and rich herbaceous flora.
Angel also sold paintings in California, and had a vernissage at Chroma Gallery in Savanna, Georgia, which he calls his favourite city.
I got into a furious argument with my good French pal as we circumnavigated the world's largest roundabout, the Queen's Park Savannah in Port of Spain.
By entering realistic estimates of stocks of black carbon in soil from two Australian savannas into a computer model that calculates carbon dioxide release from soil, the researchers found that carbon dioxide emissions from soils were reduced by about 20 percent over 100 years, as compared with simulations that did not take black carbon's long shelf life into account. Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
Together they romp with the animals of the African savannah, particularly the elephants and a trio of cheetah cubs.
In India, white siris is dominant to co-dominant in mixed deciduous forest or fauna as scattered individuals or in small groups in savanna woodlands (Benthall 1933, Bor 1953). Chapter 37
Speak up now, people, or destine your children and their children to the loss of the Savannah.
You'll carry your own gear as you pedal a hybrid bicycle through the mango orchards, cashew groves, and savannas of the Saloum River valley, bunking in small hotels and local villagers' homes along the way.
The forest floor on my land, with its dense layer of needles and duff, burned hotter and harder than the grassy savanna.
Dry-hot savanna-like ecosystem appears in river valley areas of the lower reaches of the Lancang and Jinsha rivers, while microphyllous shrublands (desert) ecosystem of dry-warm river valleys occurs in the upper reaches of the Lancang and Jinsha rivers. Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas, China
Humankind has always been filled with the urge to spread, to carve out new territories and experience new vistas, from the time we wandered down from the trees to explore the savannahs, and this urge fills us still.
This led to the evolution of long-legged running animals adapted to life on the savanna and prairie.
Most of the area is deforested and carpeted with African savanna grasses, but various parks preserve patches of remnant or second-growth forest.
Woody species in the better drained savannas and woodlands include Tabebuia ochracea, Luehea paniculata, Acacia albicorticata, Acrocomia aculeata, Astronium fraxinifolium, Cordia glabrata, Pithecellobium scalare, Pseudobombax marginatum, and Samanea tubulosa. Beni savanna
As far as the eye can see in all directions is green savannah, dotted with anthills and termite hills, scrub and manioc fields plunging down into forested valleys with jungle and rivers and women carrying huge loads on their heads and thousands of little kiddos shouting “mundele” ‘white person’ in Kikongo almost hysterically and running after the truck as we drive by. Archive 2007-05-01
Crazy's uninhibited style of theatrical stagecraft was in evidence even then: he started his Savannah turn by emerging from a big dustbin.
Certainly the re-creation of natural habitats, from the African savannah to the Asian wetlands and Australia's variety, is exceptional.
Savannah and forest elephants have been separated for at least three million years, they say, and are as distinct from each other as Asian elephants are from the extinct woolly mammoth.
The park contains typical northern Sudanese savanna fauna and the only remaining populations of elephant Loxodonta africana (T), buffalo Syncerus caffer and kob Kobus kob in Niger. 'W' National Park, Niger
The refuges were mainly areas of lowland rainforest that survived when savanna became more widely distributed in colder and drier episodes.
Humankind has always been filled with the urge to spread, to carve out new territories and experience new vistas, from the time we wandered down from the trees to explore the savannahs, and this urge fills us still.
Even the ostrich squawk as they make their way across the sandvelt to open marshlands and savannahs dotted with acacia, baobab trees and wild sage bushes.
In those days all the cotton that came to Savannah was unloaded at this yard, and then drayed to steamers, etc. The result was, in one of my leaps from bale to bale I slipped and broke my right leg, and had to be carried home in the arms of one of the big Irish laborers. Memoirs of a southerner, 1840-1923,
Along the way, the river cuts through oak savannas, desert scrub, and grassland expanses.
In those days all the cotton that came to Savannah was unloaded at this yard, and then drayed to steamers, etc. Memoirs of a Southerner
They played a recording of a savanna fire to reed frogs that were peacefully estivating in Ivory Coast's Comoe National Park.
Vegetation in the tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas and shrublands biome (also called savanna) consists of a cover of perennial grass species 1 to 2 meters (3 to 6 feet) tall with scattered drought-resistant trees that generally do not exceed 10 meters (32 feet) in height. Terrestrial biome
The savanna is burned frequently to maintain pasturage for grazing and to keep the land open for hunting. Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras
Meanwhile, they burned crops, destroyed railroads and factories and reached Savannah with 25,000 bales of captured cotton.
In the United States, Victorian English edging tiles appear to have been used chiefly in Savannah, Georgia.
You'll carry your own gear as you pedal a hybrid bicycle through the mango orchards, cashew groves, and savannas of the Saloum River valley, bunking in small hotels and local villagers' homes along the way.
The near-endemic grey-striped francolin (Francolinus griseostriatus) occurs mainly on the escarpment of the Angolan Scarp Savanna and Woodland ecoregion, but its range is very localized and it has been recorded in the Afromontane region. Angolan montane forest-grassland mosaic
Nigeria has three main environmental regions: savanna, tropical forests, and coastal wetlands.
These farmers have already devastated much of the savannah and transitional rainforest of Mato Grosso in southern Amazonia, transforming the landscape into a green sea of soyabeans.
Within a month, she had enough money to pay her rent and establish a life for herself in Portland, where she currently lives with her girlfriend and their Savannah cat.
It is a rich mosaic of savanna grassland, thickets and woodlands; grasslands: low-lying, hygrophilous and floodplain; sedge swamps, freshwater reed and papyrus swamps; riverine woodlands, swamp forests and forested dunes; the lake with its uniquely variable salinity regime;, underwater macrophyte beds, saline reed swamps, salt marshes and mangroves; rocky and sandy shores, coral reefs and submarine canyons. Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, South Africa
Tied at 25, Longhorns senior libero Savanna Gustafson served an undiggable ace into the Rams 'front court, then followed with another tough serve. Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories
The unusual terrain of Etosha holds savanna grassland, dense brush and woodland.
The earth's remaining wilderness would be in even greater danger if the opening of northern markets were to create a financial incentive for developing nations to replace forests, savannas and wetlands with land-wasting peasant farms.
She could feel her skin burning under the hot Savannah sun and although she detested the snow, she despised the sun just as much.
Anthills of the Savannah thereby thematizes it own immanent limitation as representation of reality and capsule of ideas.
The savannas dominated by grasses are essentially free of shrubs and trees; but in some cases, low shrubby or suffruticose elements may be present, thus classifying as shrubby meadows of scrub savannas. Guyanan savanna
The landscape ranges from volcanoes and Afro-alpine mountains to savanna and lowland rain forest.
These farmers have already devastated much of the savannah and transitional rainforest of Mato Grosso in southern Amazonia, transforming the landscape into a green sea of soyabeans.
Dry barrens offer an exceptional opportunity to examine fire effects on community structure, composition, and diversity patterns in savannalike natural communities.
Recent research has covered restoration of degraded soils using mycorrhizae, the characterization of savannah-forest vegetation, auto-ecology of vegetative species, wildfire effects on floral permanence and composition and atmosphere-biosphere interactions. Canaima National Park, Venezuela
Volunteers, environmental groups, and government agencies are now restoring its 19,000 acres of prairie, woodlands, savannas, and wetlands.
If these differences had evolved in savannahs or forests, then they should be reflected in monkeys and apes that live in these habitats today.
These tiny documents were purchased by a flea market trader in a trunk stored in the attic of a prominent Savannah family during the dispersal of an estate.
Wide stretches of the transitional plains are covered by wooded savanna of Terminalia laxiflora with Crossopteryx febrifuga and Butyrospermum parkii, heavily used by the larger mammals such as elephant, during the dry season. Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic
Following on their heels are the predators of the savanna - lion, cheetah, wild dog, jackal, hyena and vultures.
They include the harpy eagle Harpia harpyja, the largest raptor in South America, the savanna hawk Buteogallus meridionalis, the jabiru Jabiru mycteria, a large water bird; and the great tinamou, Tinamus major a large land bird. Canaima National Park, Venezuela
The savanna landscape supports a small antelope species called Grimm's duiker, side striped jackals, and rare birds including Denham's bustard.
Inland is a barren coastal savanna with, in wetter areas, sedge prairie Rhynchospora spp., Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras
When Savannah, Georgia, power lifter Cheryl Ann Haworth tries to clean-and-jerk the equivalent of a white rhino, we as Americans are obligated to pray for her success, despite the fact that we know nothing about her or any of her foes. Chuck Klosterman on Sports
Even the ostrich squawk as they make their way across the sandvelt to open marshlands and savannahs dotted with acacia, baobab trees and wild sage bushes.
They occupy a wide range of environment from the edges of the desert to savannah lands (favoured by N. meleagris) and high forests.
Sue-Marie inhaled through her teeth, just imagining... Savannah grassland, rhinos, little families of warthog, men with spears... `Mmm! TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS
Savannahs have been described as a "super cat" for their size and behavior.
Monkeys are to be found around the crop growing and savanna areas.
My daughter came for a visit with her Savannah cat.
Lush forests of sweet gum trees and maples give way to brush that seamlessly becomes hilly terrain, then opens up to savanna-like plains.
Most archaeological sites are sited along former rivers and lake margins in wooded savanna on the edge of the Ténéré, which probably last held water 4,000 years ago. Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger
And isn´t it strange that some of us humans proudly aware of our descent from those ugly apemen that once in a time roamed the african savannah appear to have more morals and decency than the heavenly pascha that our superorthodox Calvinist venerates with such fervour. Evolution and Liberal Christianity
I yearn for you as a crab craves the wet sand, a wildebeest the vast savannah, a toad every mudhole and mossy shelf. The Best American Poetry 2010
The terrain consists of high plateaus, large savannas, and hilly areas; the highest altitude is in the Muchinga Mountains, at 6,000 feet.
We next crossed a wet savanna, which is the beginning of a region still lower than we had traversed; here we crossed a rapid rivulet of exceeding cool, pleasant water, where we halted to refresh ourselves. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
Savannah Monkeys have been exploited for biomedical research and for the pet and zoo trade. Animals of the World
The piedmont savanna is patchy, varying according to its degree of laterization and pan-development; in places it is marshy overlying rock pavement. Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
The book captures Savannah's old Southern charm and its eccentric citizens perfectly.
We flew south-southeast, the land greened up underneath us, dry savannah, wet savannah, then true rain forest. TROPIC OF NIGHT
Note 148: CS 990; * Proto-Savanna Bantu * - kàg - "specialized screen used to protect gardens"; PNCEB * - kago "protective (property) charm/medicine"; proto-Sabaki * - kag - "protect garden by medicine"; e.g., Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
(Taeniopygia guttata) - Vocal imitation in African Savannah Elephants (Loxodonta africana) - Acoustic features of Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) stags vocalizations in the Cansiglio Forest (NE Italy, 2001-2002) - The animal sound archive at the Humboldt-University of Berlin: Current activities in conservation and improving access for bioacoustic research ../mediateletipos)))
The evidence indicates that the tailgate of the Savannah estate opened as the combination came to rest.
Instead, fields of waving wheatlike grass stretched to the distant horizon, interrupted only by isolated thickets of slender, buttery-yellow trees that rose from the flavescent savanna like stiff whiskers on a cat's face. Kingdoms of Light
Baskets known in Ruvu communities included the proto-Bantu era * - túndù, the proto-Kaskazi period palm fiber * - sege, as well as small * - kapo baskets. 84 Furthermore, because its etymological root traces to a Forest-Savanna Bantu verb "to measure," Ruvu * - gelo baskets were likely used to measure goods. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
The lowlands include savannas, swamps, tropical rainforests, and semi-deserts.
When the dress of silk faille and feathers still hadn't arrived just days before her daughter's bat mitzvah, Lesley Wolman called Savannah, the Santa Monica, Calif., boutique where she'd ordered the dress at a trunk show. How Boutiques Pamper Top Customers

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