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    Alex lives in the savannah

    Savannas are comprised mostly of grasses and a few scattered trees. They cover half the surface of Africa,
    large areas of Australia, South America, and India. That is a lot of the earth’s surface!

    The savannah is dominated by


    grasses and some shrubs. In most
    The climate in a savannah is usually savannas the grass is thick and rough
    warm with temperatures ranging and grows in patches surrounded by
    from 20 to 30°C. (That means that bare ground. You won’t see many
    every day in a savannah is as hot as a trees in the savannah because of
    hot summer’s day in the UK.) little rainfall. The most you will find is
    individual trees or small clusters of
    them mostly living live near streams
    The annual rainfall is from 25 - 75 cm and ponds.
    per year which isn’t very much at all!
    Most of this rain falls within the few
    months of the wet season but for the There are lots of different types of
    rest of the year, the savannah is very animals that live in the savannah
    dry. During the dry season, lightning including elephants, zebras, horses,
    often strikes the ground, sets fire to the and giraffes. Many animals in the
    bone dry grass and quickly spreads savannah are herbivores, which
    across the plains. means they only eat plants.

    Extra fact- Lots of insects die in forest


    fires but bigger animals can run or fly away
    to safety. Some birds though choose not to
    fly away, they actually fly towards the fires
    to feed on the flame-roasted insects! Extra fact- During the rainy months
    animals have plenty to eat and
    drink but the rainy season is only half
    the year. During the dry season
    animals have to compete for water
    and may have to move elsewhere to
    find enough to drink. If the water
    shortages are very bad then animals
    Extra fact- Humans can create savannas by burning grasslands and cutting down trees may have to migrate a long way to
    so they can plant crops. Large animals, like elephants, can also turn a forest into a find water.
    savannah by knocking trees down, stripping the bark from the trees, and tramping on
    tree seedlings.

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