Sentences with phrase «as open grasslands»

Experience a range of environments, such as open grasslands, rocky mountains, passed winding rivers, and up into the cloud forest.

Not exact matches

For decades anthropologists have argued the «savanna hypothesis»: that bipedalism evolved on the savannas of Africa as spreading grasslands forced our ancestors to walk increasing distances across open territory.

Ledi - Geraru hosted a different fauna just 200,000 years later, with grazers such as gazelles, zebras, wild pigs, and a baboon at home in open grasslands like the Serengeti.

The wombats acted as soil engineers, building burrows that could be used for shelter, while rock - wallabies acted as gardeners, helping to create open grasslands suitable for wombat grazing.

On landscapes with both open and closed habitat structure, they may use a combined strategy of hiding in forest cover to lower predator encounter rates and seeking open terrain, such as grasslands, where predation risk may be reduced.

They are native to open grasslands in California and Oregon and as nitrogen fixers they play an important role in enhancing the fertility of the soil at Milagra.

Immense plains of open woodlands and grasslands, the jagged Rant van Tweedepoort, the dramatic Dwarsberg Mountain as well as haphazardly placed inselbergs, all make for awe inspiring scenery.

Soar above pods of hippo sleeping the day away in the depths of a lagoon, watch a herd of elephants slowly amble along open grasslands or marvel at the fleet moves of red lechwe antelope as they leap through a fringe of papyrus reeds in the shallows.

Being land locked in Toronto my spirit yearns for the open skies of the Canadian prairies where woodlands mingled with grasslands stretch as far as the eye can see.

Under climate change, increased water stress, increased peak summer heat stress causing increased mortality, vulnerability to disease and subsequent fire, as well as decreased reproduction rates could lead to large - scale dieback of the boreal forests (77, 86), with transitions to open woodlands or grasslands.

Komodo dragons prefer hot and dry places with open grassland, as well as tropical forests at low elevations.