Wild chimpanzees have long been known to rely on their powerful memories to know where and in what trees they can find ripe ...

The savanna (sometimes mistakenly spelled as "Savannah," which is in the state of Georgia) describes an African region with grasslands and minimal tree densities. This wide-open landscape becomes a ...

R ecently I had a wonderful opportunity to study and photograph a pair of red-headed woodpeckers nesting in an old tree and feeding their young. All of this happened because a reader of this ...

Prairie smoke, pasque flowers and kitten-tails have already begun popping up, and there’s hope for more surprises. Less than a year after crews began restoring an 85-acre oak savanna ...

You may have seen lions, elephants and snakes in the zoo but if you wanted to see these incredible animals in their natural habitat you’d need to visit a tropical grassland, or a savanna.

Chimpanzees bear genetic adaptations that help them thrive in their different forest and savanna habitats, some of which may protect against malaria, according to a study by an international team ...

Can you find different food chains in a savannah habitat? First, find a producer – a plant that makes its own food from sunlight. Next, find a consumer that eats the producer. Then, find another ...

African savanna elephants, Loxodonta africana africana ... they can be found in diverse habitats across sub-Saharan Africa. They typically live in families of around 10 females and their calves.

Savanna elephant populations declined by more than 50% over the last 75 years. Both forest and savanna elephants are threatened by ivory poaching and habitat loss and encroachment. “Forest elephants ...