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You may have heard about breadfruit trees. This is the sausage tree, to complete the hot dog. When thinking about the trees of the African savanna, baobabs, acacias and eventually mopane trees come into your mind. But one of the most original trees of the African savanna is the Sausage Tree (Kigelia africana), a tree... |
25 March 2008
10:25 GMT |
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The ancient Egyptians portrayed Anubis, the god of the dead, as a jackal-headed man. Jackals are species from dog's family included in the genus Canis, the same to which the wolf (and its offshoots, the dog and dingo), red wolf and coyote belong. First dog-relatives appeared to the end of the Eocene, 35 million ... |
5 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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This is the main character of all documentaries made on the savanna. We like to watch lions, hyenas or wild dogs hunting and in most cases they hunt wildebeests. That's because this is the most common African antelope of the savanna. Today wildebeests live only in eastern/southern Africa, but 300-400,000 years a... |
12 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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David Livingstone said about this tree that "it's like a carrot planted upside down". The baobab (Adansonia digitata) is named after the first explorer who discovered it, Michel Adanson, in 1749 in Senegal. There are 6 baobabs living in Madagascar, 1 in African savanna and 1 in the Australian savanna, like a pro... |
6 June 2007
11:11 GMT |
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