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University of Wisconsin Stevens Point

Annual rainfall in the

African savanna

is about the same as in Wisconsin.

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Unlike Wisconsin, rainfall is divided into wet and dry seasons. Also, high evaporation rates dry soils soaked by summer rains. As the dry season begins, fires spread fast through dry grasses with only a few trees and shrubs surviving. Savanna, with all of its extremes, supports a diversity of animal species.

Animals featured

in the African savanna

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Lion

Panthera leo
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Klipspringer
Oreotragus oreotragus
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Foreground:  Spotted hyena, Crocuta crocuta; Klipspringer
Background: Ostrich, Struthio camelus; Wildebeest (walking single file in distance) Connochaetes tarinus
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Foreground: Bush duiker, Silvicapra grimmia; Spotted hyena
Background: White-backed vulture (lower three in baobab tree) Gyps africanus; Lappet-faced vulture (highest in tree),Torgos tracheliotus; African elephant, Loxodonta africana
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African wildcat
Felis sylvestris (or lybica)
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Steenbok
Raphicerus campestris
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Burchell’s zebra
Equus burchelli
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African savanna monitor
Varanus exanthematicus
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Puff adder
Bitis arietans
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