YOUR CHILDHOOD

MOVIE COMES TO LIFE

STEP INTO THE TROPICAL SAVANNA

WE ARE LOCATED IN NAIROBI, KENYA

• Bed and breakfast • Go on a wildlife safari• Tour of tribal villages• Photo shoot with your favorite animal!• And much more….

IT MEANS NO WORRIES!HERE ARE SOME OF OUR SERVICES

AND NOW A SNEAK PEAK OF THIS BEAUTIFUL AND

UNIQUE BIOME

The Tropical Savanna: General Information

• A rolling grassland scattered with shrubs and isolated trees

• The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to support the growth of grasses

• Associated with the tropical wet and dry climate type

• Savannas may be distinguished according to the dominant taxon in the tree layer: for example, palm savannas, pine savannas, and acacia savannas

• Soils vary according to bedrock and edaphic conditions. Laterization is the dominant soil-forming process and low fertility oxisols can be expected

OXISOLS

PLANTS

ACACIA TREE

BAOBAB TREE

CANDELABRA TREE SENEGAL GUM TREE

RIVER BUSH WILLOWBERMUDA GRASS

IT’S THE CIRCLE OF

LIFE

ANIMALSCHACMA BABOON

HYENA

ANTELOPE

LIONZEBRA

CHEETAHEMU

RHINO

THE REMARKABLE ELEPHANTAlthough elephants do migrate, they have a physical adaptation that allows them to access water that is not available to other animals. Baobab trees store water in their large trunks. The elephant's physical strength and anatomy allow it to tear open the trunk of the baobab tree and to suck the water from it.

GENIUS GRASSES

In order for the grasses to survive the dry season and the periodic fires, they have developed an adaptation that allows them to grow quickly when there is adequate water. Then when water becomes scarce, the grasses turn brown to limit water loss

• 6-8 month wet summer season:78°-86° F

Better for viewing animals• Dry winter season:

68°-78° F• Annual precipitation: 20-50

inches• Hot, dry climate essential for the

maintenance of this biome- would be forest without fire and drought

CLIMATE

"Fires have long been regarded as the enemies of the savanna, but since time immemorial, they have played a role in keeping these ecosystems functioning optimally, keeping the domination of some species over others in check," Momadou Sow (Environmental Sciences Institute of the Cheikh Anta Diop University )

NEVERTHELESS, WE ASK YOU TO PLEASE NOT START ANY FIRES

Bibliography• http://

www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/savannahP.html

• http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/savanna_animal_page.htm

• https://php.radford.edu/~swoodwar/biomes/?page_id=105• http://thebiomesavanna.weebly.com/native-plants.html• http://

www.terradaily.com/reports/Scientists_develop_improved_fire_management_tools_for_Africas_savannas_999.html

CHIARA MALAGUZZIKATIE BELL

CRAY BRYAN