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Serengeti Plain
grassland regions: savanna, prairie, and steppe
common wildebeest
termite mound
Australian Outback
Vegetation profile of a typical savanna.
African elephants
Gran Chaco
Savanna vegetation during the rainy season, South Sudan.
grasslands
Observe a brindled gnu herd migrating and grazing followed by zebras, crowned cranes, lions, and hyenas
Observe a tower of giraffes feeding on acacia leaves and oxpeckers combing giraffes' coats for parasites
Take a guided tour of the Australian Outback, visiting the Undara lava tubes, Cobbold Gorge, and Agate Creek
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Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.
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Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.
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