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
Waterbuck
Common hartebeest
Kob
Addra gazelle
Banteng
African buffalo
Dorcas gazelle
Grey ox
Red-fronted gazelle
Tsessebe
Gaur
Asian buffalo
Bongo
Marshbuck
Nyala
Greater kudu
Giraffe
Peter's duiker
Sharpe's grysbok
Bay duiker
Southern reedbuck
Beira antelope
Black duiker
Bohar reedbuck
Ogilby's duiker
Red-flanked duiker
Yellow-backed duiker
Klipspringer
Roan antelope
Addax
Sable antelope
Impala
Oribi
Collared peccary
Carnivores
Jaguar
Leopard
Tiger
Jungle cat
Maned wolf
Black-footed cat
Wild cat
Bush dog
Spotted hyaena
Ocelot
Asiatic jackal
Side-striped jackal
Rusty-spotted cat
Black-backed jackal
African golden cat
Serval
African caracal
Cougar
Cape fox
African wild dog
Bay lynx
Eyra cat
Cheetah
Short-eared dog
Hoary fox
Chilean pampa cat
Geoffroy's cat
Common fox
Bat-eared fox
Striped hyaena
Gambian mongoose
African lion
Bats
Light-winged lesser house bat
Lesser woolly bat
Dobson's fruit bat
African yellow bat
Franquet's epauletted fruit bat
White-bellied yellow bat
Long-tailed house bat
Schreber's yellow bat
Greenish yellow bat
Botswanan long-eared bat
Percival's trident bat
Namib long-eared bat
African sheath-tailed bat
Trident bat
De winton's long-eared bat
Aellen's pipistrelle
Rüppel's pipistrelle
Daubenton's free-tailed bat
Rusty pipistrelle
Egyptian free-tailed bat
Morris's bat
Madagascan large free-tailed bat
Cape hairy bat
Kenyan big-eared free-tailed bat
Welwitch's bat
African giant free-tailed bat
Veldkamp's bat
Persian trident bat
Hamilton's tomb bat
Mauritian tomb bat
Gambian slit-faced bat
Naked-rumped tomb bat
Hairy slit-faced bat
Egyptian tomb bat
Large-eared slit-faced bat
Egyptian slit-faced bat
Blasius's horseshoe bat
Wood's slit-faced bat
Aba roundleaf bat
Straw-coloured fruit bat
Darling's horseshoe bat
Sundevall's roundleaf bat
Angolan epauletted fruit bat
Dent's horseshoe bat
Jones's roundleaf bat
Lesser angolan epauletted fruit bat
Eloquent horseshoe bat
Moloney's flat-headed bat
Ethiopian large-eared roundleaf bat
Gambian epauletted fruit bat
Ansorge's free-tailed bat
Rüppell's horseshoe bat
Angolan free-tailed bat
Gland-tailed free-tailed bat
Hildebrandt's horseshoe bat
Large-eared free-tailed bat
Mongalla free-tailed bat
Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat
Spotted free-tailed bat
Lander's horseshoe bat
Swinny's horseshoe bat
Midas free-tailed bat
East african epauletted fruit bat
Lappet-eared free-tailed bat
Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat
Nigerian free-tailed bat
Buettikofer's epauletted fruit bat
Little free-tailed bat
Dasyuroid marsupials and marsupial carnivores
Kangaroo island dunnart
Chestnut dunnart
Tasmanian tiger
Northern quoll
New guinean planigale
Bronze quoll
Kangaroos, possums, wallabies, and relatives
Northern glider
Mahogany glider
Dusky pademelon
Monjon
Scaly-tailed possum
Western brush wallaby
Hyraxes
Bush hyrax
Rock dassie
Elephant-shrews
Short-snouted elephant shrew
Dusky elephant shrew
Rufous elephant-shrew
Bandicoots and bilbies
Desert bandicoot
Horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs
Black rhinoceros
Square-lipped rhinoceros
Burchell's zebra
Primates
Garnett's greater galago
Elephants
African elephant
Rodents
Callewaert's mouse
Tinfields rock rat
Gracile tateril
Hausa mouse
Bristle-spined rat
Franklin's ground squirrel
Harrington's gerbil
Lake chad gerbil
Desert pygmy mouse
Petter's gerbil
Ochre bush squirrel
Woolly giant rat
Senegal gerbil
Spring hare
Pygmy mouse
Fossorial giant rat
Nairobi grass rat
African grass rat
Loring's rat
Neave's mouse
Bushy-talied woodrat
Idaho pocket gopher
Oubangui mouse
Peter's mouse
Felou gundi
Gambian rat
Fat mouse
Setzer's pygmy mouse
Lakeland downs mouse
Thomas's pygmy mouse
Bellier's lemniscomys
Bocage's mole rat
Mianzini mole rat
Delicate mouse
Griselda's lemniscomys
Senegal lemniscomys
Hairy-footed gerbil
East african mole rat
Andean rat
Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil
Sudan gerbil
Lesser stick-nest rat
Pleasant gerbil
Baluchistan gerbil
Gray glimbing mouse
Greater stick-nest rat
Nigerian gerbil
Brant's climbing mouse
Chestnut climbing mouse
Crested rat
Olga's dormouse
Pouched gerbil
Savanna dormouse
South african ground squirrel
Naked mole rat
Damara ground squirrel
Boehm's gerbil
Four-striped grass mouse
Gerbil mouse
Unstriped ground squirrel
Fiery spiny mouse
Highveld gerbil
Southern multimammate mouse
Woosnam's broad-headed mouse
Kemp's spiny mouse
Guinea gerbil
Guinea multimammate mouse
Hildegarde's broad-headed mouse
Louise's spiny mouse
Kemp's gerbil
Natal multimammate mouse
Percival's spiny mouse
Bushveld gerbil
Wilson's spiny mouse
Black-tailed gerbil
Fring-tailed gerbil
Savanna gerbil
Angolan vlei rat
Bocage's rock rat
Robbins's tateril
Pouched mouse
Red rock rat
Congo gerbil
Mearns's pouched mouse
Baoule's mouse
Crested porcupine
Namaqua rock rat
Emin's gerbil
Aardvark
Aardvark
Edentates
Large hairy armadillo
Six-banded armadillo
Lesser fairy armadillo
Brazilian three-banded armadillo
Common long-nosed armadillo
Northern naked-tailed armadillo
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