savannas
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Capybaras aren’t native to Mexico; they are South American, occupying savannas and vegetated areas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
The scale of the increase varied across the four different biomes surveyed, with the sharpest rise in tropical savannas.
From Barron's • Jan. 6, 2026
"We must act to save our rivers, oceans, savannas, mangroves and forests, as well as the communities that protect and live alongside them," he said.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2024
As a result, tropical forests, savannas and grasslands in those areas tend to wither and die and burn in wildfires, contributing to additional CO2 emissions.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2024
While the savannas and mangroves of coastal southern New Guinea are fairly similar to those of northern Australia, other habitats of the hemi-continents differ in almost all major respects.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
