savannahs

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The grasslands and savannahs show the highest prevalence among African habitats, whereas forested habitats were more prominent in Eurasia making the range of different habitats wider in Eurasia.

From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2023

Otherwise-tropical areas can experience drying, causing rivers to disappear, lakes to turn into swamps, jungles into savannahs, and grasslands into deserts.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Since then there have been efforts to reintroduce these cats to India’s savannahs.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2022

However, in African savannahs the number of wildfires decreased over the same period, because of land use changes, including the expansion of farming.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2022

Twenty million years ago, our immediate ancestors probably still lived in the trees, later descending because the forests receded during a major ice age and were replaced by grassy savannahs.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan