Fun Facts
Instead of having 4 like we do, savanna biomes only have two that are distinguished by the amount of rainfall
What are seasons?
These animals eat around 150kg of food in a day!
What are elephants?
This is the range of temperatures that occur in savannas
What is 68-86 degrees fahrenheit?
These animals migrate around 500-1,000 miles in a season
What are wildebeests?
This technique is used by gazelles to alert other gazelles of a predator
What is flicking their tails or stomping their feet?
This is the name for a group of zebras
What is a dazzle?
This animal makes one of the loudest noises made by an animal in the world! This common safari animal can be heard from up to 5 miles away
What are Lions
This continent is made up of mostly savannas and grasslands
What is Africa?
This kind of animal in prominent and most common in savannas
What are herbivores?
This is where armadillos live
What are rainforests and deserts?
This animals name directly comes from the large horns on the front of their face
What is a rhinoceros?
This term refers to an animal that walks on its toes instead of the soles of their feet
What is a digitigrade?
From May to November savannas experience this kind of weather
What is a wet season?
These kind of animals are normally carnivores that prey on herbivores
What are predators?
This refers to how animals can share the same niche without competing
What is resource partitioning?
Antelopes are related to these animals
What are cows, sheep, and goats?
This is a skill that many herbivores have developed over time as a way to avoid predators
What is speed?
Savannas have high temperatures because they are near this part of the world
What is the equator?
Herds of these animals can have around 1.5 million animals
What are wildebeests?
What are canopys?
In order to survive through droughts, some plants have formed adaptations such as these
What are super long roots?
These animals steal underground burrows from animals like aardvarks
What are Warthogs?
Savannas cover this many square miles in Africa
What are 5 million square miles?
Animals in the savanna have to do this throughout the year in order to find new water sources
What is migration?
This is when humans illegally hunt or capture animals
What is poaching?