Sentences with phrase «african acacia»

This is made from the dried, gummy sap of the African acacia tree.

Attenborough aims to persuade first through the detail and intimacy of his account of insect life: the female bumble bee's patient construction of the chamber in which she lays her eggs; the cooperative relationship between African acacias and the ants that make «mansions» in the «bloated and hollow» bases of the tree's protective spines (and sting the muzzles of grazing predators, driving them away); the cunning design of the mole cricket's burrow, which amplifies the male's mating song so that, «on a windless night, he can be heard from nearly half a mile away.»

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It's a David versus Goliath kind of story, with an ecological twist: In African savannas (regions with both trees and grass), acacia - dwelling ants can repel voracious, tree - eating elephants, according to new research by published online September 2 in Current Biology.

Of baby elephants rolling about in mud, graceful giraffe peering over acacia trees, cheeky monkeys snatching muffins and bananas from breakfast tables, long - legged impala (the archetypical African antelope) bounding gracefully across savannah plains, and hyena pups suckling on their mother.

At sunset, take a romantic walk around the resort's vast area, from the cliff top up to the beach, amongst acacia trees and savannah grassland, crossing the river and admiring the waterfall created to complete this African atmosphere.

Lying at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, among yellow barked acacia trees and cream slate, this lodge blends perfectly into the African savannah and is in a marvellous spot for elephant watching.