The Savanna
In the beautiful, one and only,
Package Includes:
• 5 * hotel (The Ravelobe Hotel)
with complementary massages
• Fresh-water – filled pool
• 5 * service
• 5 * everything you need
Geography
• Porous soil allowing water to drain quickly
• Dry grassland with scattered trees
• A place for animals that were chased out
of their original habitat to go
• Provides thin layer of humus that provides
vegetation with nutrients
• About 1000 to 2000 ft. above sea level (an
ideal place for extremists)
Ideal Vacation Period: May-June
• Not too hot, not too cold with a perfect
breeze!
• Plenty of water
• Plenty of animals returning from migration
( perfect time for picture taking)
• Lush green plants to lounge under and
fresh, flowing streams and rivers
Plants to look for:
Baobab Tree
• Usually described it as an upside down
tree because of legends
• All of the tree is useful the baobab's bark,
leaves, fruit, and trunk are all used
• Can grow up to be 25 meters tall
• Grows special fruit called “monkey bread”
that tastes excellent!!
Manketti Tree
• Prefers to grow in wooded hills and sand dunes
• Straight trunk with stubby and contorted
branches and a large spreading crown
• Can grow up to be 66 feet
• The nuts give oil and are considered one of the
most important nuts
• the fruit ripens on the ground and the color turns
from the original yellow to reddish brown with
ripening
Senegal Gum Acacia
• Can grow up to 20 meters tall
• Gum comes out of the tree when it stops
growing (Gum Arabic) which is used to
make medicine
• Gum is very useful. For instance, if you get
hurt, it is like a salve, and is used for many
ailments like coughs, diarrhea and etc.
• Gives a nice shade and you could hear the
birds singing on the branches!
Plants to Avoid!!!
Candelabra Tree
• Can grow up to be 10 meters tall
• It has little yellow flowers in mid-winter
• If a drop of the white sap from the inner
tree comes in contact with the skin, a
blister will form
• It will blind you if it touches the eyes and
even breathing the fumes burns
Elephant Grass
• Can be as tall as 10 feet
• Grows along lake beds and rivers where
the soil is rich
• The stems are coarse and hairy, and about
1 inch thick near the base
• They are razor sharp!! (enter these at your
own risk!!)
Whistling Thorn
• Can grow up to be 18 feet tall
• Protects itself with pairs of long thorns up
to 3 inches long
• Home to four different kinds of stinging
ants who pierce these swollen thorns with
tiny holes
• When the wind blows it turns old and
abandoned spines into tiny whistling flutes
ANIMALS!!!
Malagasy Rats
• Weigh 21 to 1,500 grams
• build nests in tree cavities or in
underground burrows
• They are the primary consumers that
provide food for upper level consumers
Malagasy civet
• Weigh between 1.5 and 2 kg. with the
male weighing more
• Short, dense fur which is a brownish
color and has 4 rows of dark spots
running along the back
• A popular attraction: can be
photographed rather easily because it
can be attracted to bait stations (whip
out your cameras!)
Large-Eared Tenrec
• Weighing .03 - .21 oz.
• Small and shrew-like with very short, soft
hair-covered tails
• Mostly solitary animals
• Specialized termites feeders and thus act
as secondary consumers in an ecosystem
CALL NOW TO RESERVE A SPOT
888- 157-1057
Too late!!!!
CREDITS!!!!!!!!!!
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http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/pics/03_2006/acacia.jpg
http://www.geekologie.com/2007/10/11/toilet-house.jpg
http://www.wisebread.com/files/fruganomics/imagecache/blog_image_full/fil
es/fruganomics/blog-images/Madagascar%20landscape.jpg
http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/05/25/MadagascarAlexBrown_wid
eweb__430x322,0.jpg
http://eur.i1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/i/uk/tr/tg/lp/51/500_514e1118f90c98175
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http://www.greatnorthroad.org/bboard/images/0309/big-tree.jpg
http://www.worldofstock.com/slides/MES2122.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/africatrees/candelabra.jpg
http://www.betsygoestochina.com/images/bali/BAgrass.jpg
http://www.madagascarhotel-link.com/data/site/90/main_img4.jpg
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Nesomyina
e.html
http://www.astronomynotes.com/science-religion/NormLevan/large-earedtenrecsm.jpg
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Geogale_a
urita.html
http://blog.imedexchange.com/LuckyOliver-3362817-blog3d_silver_exclamation_mark.jpg
CREDITS!!!!!!!!!! (cont.)
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http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/savanna.htm
http://www.country-studies.com/madagascar/climate.html
http://www.wildmadagascar.org/people/culture.html
http://www.panda.org/news_facts/education/high_school/habitats/tro
pical_savannah/index.cfm
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/grasslands.php#sava
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http://www.maps.com/productImages2.aspx?pid=4924
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/savanna.htm
David’s uncle Francis Ryu
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/04/11/science/041108Scien
cepix_index.html
http://www.plantzafrica.com/vegetation/vegimages/savanna5.jpg
http://fohn.net/zebra-pictures-facts/photos-wallpaper/grants-zebrafoal.jpg
http://static.zsl.org/images/originals/ds-malagasy-giant-jumping-r2268.jpg
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Fos
sa_fossana.html