Sentences with phrase «acacia trees»
Scientists tested the two hypotheses with wild colonies of acacia ants (Pseudomyrmex spinicola), which make their nests in the hollow spines of acacia trees in Panama.
sciencemag.org
This small camp is surrounded by swathes of grassland dotted by small islands of acacia trees in one of the most scenic areas in the Okavango.
Elephants commonly strip the bark from acacia trees to get the sap, but the researchers found no damage on the six trees with active hives.
We drove for two hours on a rocky unpaved road, through rolling green hills dotted with acacia trees and tukuls (traditional mud huts).
To test the idea, the team hung logs containing hives from selected acacia trees along a river frequented by elephants in central Kenya.
They also lie under acacia trees in South Africa to seek shade during the day.
Flat - topped acacia trees dotted the landscape, their limbs extending outward instead of upward, as though their growth was inspired by the horizon.
Best of all, Soetdorings campsite is small, restricted to one camping group at a time, and set in amongst incredible lush vegetation around a man - made natural rock pool, beneath acacia trees and close to the bed of the Klein Rivier.
Boasting a beautiful location and idyllic setting with water pools, home to resident hippos, and yellow barked acacia trees which surround the tents.
To understand the threat to the native ants, Palmer and colleagues wanted to witness an attack on acacia trees.
The standard theory of evolution is that animals that randomly inherited genes that produced beneficial traits — in the case of the giraffe, a longer neck, which made it easier to reach tall acacia trees — ate better, reproduced more often and passed these gene variants to their offspring.
Without large grazing herbivores to eat them, acacia trees suffer because of a shift in the ant populations they house
Trees «speak» to one another through scent, as African acacia trees do when giraffes begin feeding off of them.
Business has escaped the city centre choosing the north coast's Umhlanga as its home, where hugely ambitious malls nestle in amongst a flurry of new and modern townhouse complexes and business parks with sea views, and an avenue of green acacia trees.
On the patio, guests have braai facilities and old acacia trees give guests shade from the summer heat.
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.
Olerai is an enchanting country home on a beautiful farm in Africa, nestled under yellow acacia trees and purple jacarandas.
In Niger, farmers faced with severe drought and desertification in the 1980s began leaving some emerging acacia tree seedlings in their fields as they prepared the land for crops.
Binghamton University Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Kirsten Prior, along with Todd Palmer from the University of Florida, studied the symbiotic interaction between the whistling thorn acacia tree (the dominant tree in the East African savanna) and the ants that inhabit them.
They examined three sites invaded by the bigheaded ants and found five times as many acacia trees with moderate or worse damage from elephants, relative to uninvaded sites.
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.
About the environmental aspect, growing acacia trees prevents desertification and deforestation.
The country in this area is flat and sandy, covered with low thorn bushes and an occasional acacia tree.
There is also something deeply, emotionally stirring and affecting about the plains of Africa — those vast, green rolling plains punctuated by graphically perfect acacia trees under the huge skies.
His team calculated that the forces that fractured Lucy's upper arm were equal to a fall from a height of about 13.7 meters — as high as a four - story building or the top of a tall tree, such as a mature acacia tree — at a velocity of about 59 kilometers per hour.
Less than 10 miles from Little Foot's Sterkfontein, a site called Malapa sits on a hillside of scraggly acacia trees that are stalked by a resident leopard.
Crematogaster do the best job defending acacia trees.
The desiccation continued, and, by 700 B.C., mostly desert flora like the hardy acacia tree dotted the now - parched landscape.
Now Skukuza is covered in a lush green, from the grass at its golf course to the leafy acacia trees.
Using a catapult powered by a bungee cord, the experts launched a small airplane over the deep and dark landscape, thick with acacia trees sporting 5 - centimeter (2 - inch) thorns.
By the time we moved in, the yard had taken on a mini-forest appeal with full - grown weeds and several acacia trees.
The view from our room spanned out over the green lawn where cows grazed, past the wooden fence acacia trees and beyond the lake to the layers of mountain shadows.
I often saw, in Somalia, lone camels munching on thorny acacia trees or standing, regal, in the middle of a road.
The Savannah (Swahili for «endless plain») with its umbrella acacia trees, waving golden grass as far as you can see, and HERDS of animals.
Or indeed for a jeep drive into the Arava valley where acacia trees flourish so that the Ibex can shelter under their canopies.
Desert Escape The Namib Desert is as dramatic as the landscape of the heart: flame - colored rolling dunes and expansive blue skies are punctuated only by a mysterious gemsbok or a lonely acacia tree.
It is located within the central savannah region, with long grasses, wide acacia trees and plenty of opportunities to spot all of the Serengeti's main wildlife.
In early 2009 the many non-native acacia trees around the campsites were removed in order to restore vegetation native to the Big Sur Coast.
as one of the university town in the Philippines, one must visit the very known university in town which is Silliman, it's the first American university in Asia, it's uniquely situated at the center of the city surrounded by those big acacia trees.
The room has a private deck which overlooks the bushveld from under an overhanging acacia tree.
The camp sits on a grassy pan surrounded by acacia trees, with views across the landscape that change from desert to spring flowers depending on the season.
Tortilis Camp is named after the tortilis acacia tree and is a charming rustic tented camp built into the side of a hill, facing the foothills of Africa's highest mountain, Kilimanjaro.
Sited in a copse of majestic acacia trees at the edge of the Gurusi wetlands and the unfurling savannah beyond.
The camp is hidden in a secluded valley, and is set amongst shady acacia trees on the banks of a seasonal river.
Fibregum ™ dietary fibers are all - natural with proven prebiotic benefits and sourced from selected acacia trees.
Charcoal is made from acacia trees that are 50 and 500 years old.
Full - day wildlife game drives through the beautiful reserve with its rolling savannah, punctuated by the iconic flat topped acacia trees, in search of the best possible game viewing.
It has an incredible biodiversity including savannah, grasslands, thornveld and tall acacia trees.