resistant shrubbery, perennial grasses that grow up to six feet, such as red oats grass, lemon grass and Rhodes grass. Drought and fire resistant trees also add to the habitat. The dry savanna has three seasons: dry and cool, dry and hot, and wet and warm. The habitats of Africa, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil and Honduras contain dry savannas.
Animals like elephants trampling seedlings that drop to the ground and knocking over trees can actually create dry savannas. Stripping trees by the bark eating animals also contributes to the formation of dry savannas, as well as fires.
What makes the dry savanna so unique is the many wildlife species that live there. Grazing animals like
giraffes, gazelles, elephants, zebras, antelopes, impalas, oryx, kudu, warthogs and buffaloes feed on the grass, bark of trees, leafy treetops and low growing shrubbery. All these grazing animals inhabit the same area, many in herds sharing the resources of the dry savanna. The large carnivore animals such as, lions, cheetahs and
leopards survive by preying on the grazing animals.
African birds, such as the Kori Bustards, Red Billed hornbill, Von der Decken's hornbill and the Southern Masked weaver also thrive in the dry savanna during the cooler seasons. The birds and some animals migrate to cooler areas during the hot, dry seasons of the dry savanna.
Even-toed ungulates
Bongo
Marshbuck
Nyala
Greater kudu
Roan antelope
Sable antelope
Common hartebeest
Sharpe's grysbok
Southern reedbuck
Bohar reedbuck
Waterbuck
Kob
Banteng
Klipspringer
Grey ox
Tsessebe
Gaur
Asian buffalo
Addra gazelle
Dorcas gazelle
Red-fronted gazelle
Oribi
Collared peccary
White-lipped peccary
Peter's duiker
Bay duiker
Beira antelope
Black duiker
Ogilby's duiker
Giraffe
Red-flanked duiker
Yellow-backed duiker
African buffalo
Addax
Carnivores
Rusty-spotted cat
African golden cat
Cougar
Striped hyaena
Cape fox
Gambian mongoose
Maned wolf
Chilean pampa cat
Jungle cat
Geoffroy's cat
Spotted hyaena
Black-footed cat
Wild cat
Bat-eared fox
Asiatic jackal
Side-striped jackal
African lion
Black-backed jackal
Jaguar
African caracal
Ocelot
Leopard
Tiger
Serval
Cheetah
Short-eared dog
Hoary fox
African wild dog
Bush dog
Bay lynx
Eyra cat
Common fox
Bats
Rusty pipistrelle
Spotted free-tailed bat
Sundevall's roundleaf bat
Egyptian free-tailed bat
Morris's bat
Lappet-eared free-tailed bat
Jones's roundleaf bat
Madagascan large free-tailed bat
Cape hairy bat
Nigerian free-tailed bat
Moloney's flat-headed bat
Ethiopian large-eared roundleaf bat
Kenyan big-eared free-tailed bat
Welwitch's bat
Little free-tailed bat
Angolan free-tailed bat
Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat
African giant free-tailed bat
Veldkamp's bat
Mongalla free-tailed bat
Persian trident bat
East african epauletted fruit bat
Hamilton's tomb bat
Midas free-tailed bat
Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat
Mauritian tomb bat
Gambian slit-faced bat
Buettikofer's epauletted fruit bat
Naked-rumped tomb bat
Hairy slit-faced bat
Lesser woolly bat
Dobson's fruit bat
Egyptian tomb bat
Large-eared slit-faced bat
Franquet's epauletted fruit bat
Egyptian slit-faced bat
Percival's trident bat
Long-tailed house bat
Blasius's horseshoe bat
Wood's slit-faced bat
African sheath-tailed bat
Trident bat
Darling's horseshoe bat
Dent's horseshoe bat
Botswanan long-eared bat
Eloquent horseshoe bat
Namib long-eared bat
Rüppell's horseshoe bat
De winton's long-eared bat
Hildebrandt's horseshoe bat
Lander's horseshoe bat
Large-eared free-tailed bat
Swinny's horseshoe bat
Light-winged lesser house bat
African yellow bat
White-bellied yellow bat
Schreber's yellow bat
Greenish yellow bat
Straw-coloured fruit bat
Angolan epauletted fruit bat
Lesser angolan epauletted fruit bat
Aellen's pipistrelle
Gambian epauletted fruit bat
Ansorge's free-tailed bat
Rüppel's pipistrelle
Daubenton's free-tailed bat
Gland-tailed free-tailed bat
Aba roundleaf bat
Dasyuroid marsupials and marsupial carnivores
New guinean planigale
Northern quoll
Bronze quoll
Kangaroo island dunnart
Chestnut dunnart
Tasmanian tiger
Kangaroos, possums, wallabies, and relatives
Scaly-tailed possum
Northern glider
Mahogany glider
Monjon
Dusky pademelon
Western brush wallaby
Hyraxes
Rock dassie
Bush hyrax
Elephant-shrews
Short-snouted elephant shrew
Dusky elephant shrew
Rufous elephant-shrew
Bandicoots and bilbies
Desert bandicoot
Horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs
Burchell's zebra
Black rhinoceros
Square-lipped rhinoceros
Primates
Garnett's greater galago
Elephants
African elephant
Rodents
East african mole rat
Guinea multimammate mouse
Natal multimammate mouse
Bocage's rock rat
Red rock rat
Namaqua rock rat
Tinfields rock rat
Bristle-spined rat
Crested porcupine
Baoule's mouse
South african ground squirrel
Callewaert's mouse
Nairobi grass rat
African grass rat
Damara ground squirrel
Boehm's gerbil
Four-striped grass mouse
Hausa mouse
Unstriped ground squirrel
Highveld gerbil
Desert pygmy mouse
Woolly giant rat
Woosnam's broad-headed mouse
Guinea gerbil
Gambian rat
Fossorial giant rat
Hildegarde's broad-headed mouse
Kemp's gerbil
Bocage's mole rat
Bushveld gerbil
Black-tailed gerbil
Felou gundi
Fring-tailed gerbil
Lakeland downs mouse
Savanna gerbil
Bellier's lemniscomys
Robbins's tateril
Angolan vlei rat
Griselda's lemniscomys
Congo gerbil
Pouched mouse
Gray glimbing mouse
Senegal lemniscomys
Hairy-footed gerbil
Emin's gerbil
Mearns's pouched mouse
Brant's climbing mouse
Andean rat
Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil
Gracile tateril
Chestnut climbing mouse
Franklin's ground squirrel
Sudan gerbil
Harrington's gerbil
Pouched gerbil
Lesser stick-nest rat
Pleasant gerbil
Lake chad gerbil
Greater stick-nest rat
Baluchistan gerbil
Petter's gerbil
Ochre bush squirrel
Pygmy mouse
Nigerian gerbil
Senegal gerbil
Spring hare
Neave's mouse
Crested rat
Bushy-talied woodrat
Loring's rat
Oubangui mouse
Fiery spiny mouse
Olga's dormouse
Idaho pocket gopher
Peter's mouse
Kemp's spiny mouse
Savanna dormouse
Setzer's pygmy mouse
Louise's spiny mouse
Fat mouse
Thomas's pygmy mouse
Percival's spiny mouse
Naked mole rat
Mianzini mole rat
Delicate mouse
Gerbil mouse
Wilson's spiny mouse
Southern multimammate mouse
Aardvark
Aardvark
Edentates
Large hairy armadillo
Lesser fairy armadillo
Six-banded armadillo
Common long-nosed armadillo
Northern naked-tailed armadillo
Brazilian three-banded armadillo
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