It sort of resembled a savanna but without grass.

这就像是一个没有的大。

So, they have to be careful when cruising the African savanna.

因此，它们在非洲大巡游时必须小心。

They walk twice as far as lions living on the savannas of East Africa.

它们行经的路程是生活在东非大上的狮子的两倍。

For instance, all of the plants and animals on the savanna make up the savanna community.

例如，热带系统的所有动植物构成了热带的一个群落。

Until now, thanks to some wild savanna sparrows.

多亏了某些野生稀树鹀，现在我们能用野鸟做实验了。

One key reason is that our ancestors on the savannas of Africa were really good at one thing.

一个关键的因在于我们非洲大上的祖先真的非常擅长一件事情。

To get away from some lion that wanted us for Sunday brunch on the savannas of East Africa.

远离一些想在东非大我们当做周日早午餐吃掉的狮子。

America during the last Ice Age, it was probably a savanna, with its own set of native earthworms.

当地可能就是莽，还有生种的蚯蚓。

The fires burned in parts of both the large Cerrado savanna and the world's largest tropical wetland, the Pantanal.

大火烧毁了塞拉多大和世界上最大的热带湿地潘塔纳尔的部分地区。

In other words, evidence suggesting African savanna elephants give each other names.

换句话说，这表明非洲大象会给互相起名字。

A hundred thousand years ago, we were all in the African savanna.

十万年前我们都在非洲大。

Take the savanna, for example — a transitional biome between forests and grasslands.

以稀树为例，它是森林和之间的过渡生物群落。

Elevation and latitude crosscut to form mazes of high-altitude grasslands, chilly black-green conifer forests, temperate rhododendron thickets, and subtropical lowland savannas.

海拔和纬度横切，形成迷宫般的高海拔，寒冷的黑绿色针叶林，温带杜鹃花灌丛和亚热带低地稀树。

In fact, it transforms from desert to lush savanna about every 21,000 years.

事实上，那里大概每隔21000年就会从沙漠变成苍翠的稀树大。

The open savanna beneath the trees makes it easy to move around and feed.

树下开阔的热带使得它可以轻松走动和觅食。

As the climate heated up, the forests receded, and humans ventured out into the savanna.

随着气候变暖，森林退化，人类铤而走险，进入热带。

But the thorny acacia are more numerous on the open savanna, where they need to defend themselves.

而有刺的金欢树更多地长在开阔的热带中，在那，它们需要保护自己。

It's 17,000 feet high, which makes its summit some 30 degrees colder than the surrounding savanna.

海拔超过五千米峰顶，温度比周围的热带低三十度左右。

Scientists can easily count the number of savanna elephants from an airplane because there are very few trees.

科学家们可以很容易地借助飞机数出稀树的大象的数量，因为那里的树木非常少。

Then, all of the savanna's carnivores eat animals that have gotten energy from plants somewhere along the line.

然后，热带上所有的食肉动物都以从植物中获取能量的动物为食。