Savanna grows in areas where high rainfall is interspersed with drought and fire. The fires and drought prevent the area from transforming into tropical rainforest.

Note that this is an oversimplification: there are several ways for land that would otherwise be tropical rainforest to become savanna, including the grazing of animals (elephants in particular), poor soil conditions, and farming by so-called "civilized" races.

Very similar to a hot prairie, large herbivores stalk the horizons, small copses of trees dot the landscape here and there, and small mammals, birds, and insects are your ever-present friends.

The savanna is near and dear to my heart because my totem animal, the giraffe, is native there. What could be more beautiful than a herd of giraffes stalking across the tree-studded tropical grassland, noble and tall...?

Savannas tend to be warm, tending to very hot. Large amounts of precipitation occur in the rainy season, and enormous fires raze the landscape during the dry season droughts.

For the most part, if it weren't for the dry season, most savannas would be transformed into tropical rainforests.

The vegetation of the savanna is dominated by tall grasses, with occassional small shrubs and corky trees.

• Grasses: Rhodes, red oat, star, lemon

• Small shrubs:

• Trees: palm, other corky kinds.

• Insects: termites, beetles, worms

• small mammals: mice, moles, gophers, ground squirrels

• snakes

• eland, impalas, gazelles, oryx, gerenuk, and kudu.

• buffalo, wildebeest, plains zebra, rhinos, giraffes, elephants, and warthogs

• rhinoceri

• wild horses

• aardvarks

• lions

• cheetahs

• leopards

• hyenas

• jackals

• wild dogs

• kangaroos