Savannah stretching to clear horizons,

savannah shuddering beneath the East Wind's eager caresses Carved tom tom, taut tom tom, muttering

And birds like this Savannah sparrow, they tend to have a buzzing type call.

They are the biggest apex predators of the savannas where they hunt and feed on zebras and antelopes.

The vegetation is composed of wooded, withered shrub like or grassy savannah interspersed with some woodland.

The northern part, called Los Llanos is a savanna region, mostly in the Orinoco basin (therefore called also Orinoquía).

The ideal savanna landscape is one of the clearest examples where human beings everywhere find beauty in similar visual experience.

Stretching north and east of Santo Domingo, it contains many sugar plantations in the savannahs that are common there.

In addition to the delta and desert areas, there are grasslands and savannas, where blue wildebeest, antelopes, and other mammals and birds are found.

When we walked through the savanna a thousand years ago we made linear predictions where that animal would be, and that worked fine. It's hardwired in our brains.

And it turns out that a sound like this is the most energy efficient and practical way to transmit their call across the fields and savannahs.

Cavalry The Oyo Empire was the only Yoruba state to adopt cavalry it did so because most of its territory was in the northern savannah.

Chad is divided into multiple regions a desert zone in the north, an arid Sahelian belt in the centre and a more fertile Sudanese savanna zone in the south.

These upright apes evolved on the African savanna about two million years ago, and they made these splendid hand axes that fit wonderfully into your hands.

East of the Andes lies the savanna of the Llanos , part of the Orinoco River basin, and, in the far south east, the jungle of the Amazon rainforest.

The eastern half of Colombia, comprising more than half its territory, is plain and composed by savanna and rainforest, crossed by rivers belonging to the Amazon and Orinoco basins.

People who would have specialized in killing the animals, hunting the animals on those meat locker savannahs, moving up, following the grasslands into the Middle East around 45,000 years ago, during one of the rare wet phases in the Sahara.

And the kind of social network I'm talking about is not the recent online variety, but rather, the kind of social networks that human beings have been assembling for hundreds of thousands of years, ever since we emerged from the African savannah.

After his surgery, invoking God, Fidel Castro, the spirits of the savannah, and medical science, he responded to rumors about his illness and made his return from treatment in Havana a double celebration of Venezuela s bicentennial and of his triumph over cancer.

This is what's really complicated, that there were people living in places like the Grand Canyon, cooperating with each other, or on the savannahs of Africa, or on the frozen shores of Alaska, and then some of these villages grew into the mighty cities of Babylon, and Rome, and Tenochtitlan.

Information is lacking from the first millennium AD following the Nok ascendancy, but by the 2nd millennium there was active trade from North Africa through the Sahara to the forest, with the people of the savanna acting as intermediaries in exchanges of various goods.