Savanna Animal Printouts
What is a Savanna? A savanna is a hot, seasonally dry
grassland with scattered trees. This environment is intermediate
between a grassland and a forest. Savannas are located in the dry
tropics and the subtropics, often bordering a rainforest. Savannas have
an extended dry season and a rainy season.
Animal Adaptations: The animals that live in savannas have
adapted to a great deal of variability in the food supply throughout the
year; there are times of plenty (during and after the wet season) and
times of almost no food or water (during the dry season). Many savanna
animals migrate to deal with this problem.
Where are Savannas? Savannas are located in Africa,
Madagascar (an island off the east coast of Africa), Australia, South
America, India, and the Myanmar-Thailand region of Southeast Asia.
Animals that Live in Savannas: Many animals live in
savannas, from invertebrates (like grasshoppers, termites, and beetles)
to large mammals (like lions and leopards). The different savannas of
the world support different populations of animals.
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Africa - aardvark, African elephant, African wild cat, antelopes, buffalo,
Cape hunting dog, caracal, cheetah, eland, gerenuk, giraffe, gnu, Grant's
gazelle, hippopotamus, hyena, impala, jackal, kudu, leopard, lion,
meerkat, oryx, ostrich, red-billed oxpecker, rhinoceros, serval,
waterbuck, vulture, zebra, purple-crested louries, grey louries, green
pigeons, raptors, hornbills, shrikes, flycatchers, rollers
Australia - kangaroo, wallaby, pigeon, dove, parrot, finch, wombat
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South America - rodents (like the capybara), rhea, and deer.
India - Asiatic water buffalo, Asian elephant, Indian rhinoceros, Indian
wolf, tiger, savanna nightjar
Myanmar-Thailand - Asian elephant, Asiatic Water buffalo, pygmy
hog, tiger
Printouts of Savanna Animals:
African
Elephant
Aardvark
Aardvarks are
large mammals
that eat ants.
The African
Elephant is the
largest land
animal.
Antelope
Antelopes are
graceful mammals
with beautiful
horns.
Black Caiman
Ant
Ants are
social
insects.
African Wild
Cat
African Wild
Cats are fierce,
solitary hunters.
Anteater
Anteaters are mammals
with very long snouts
from South and Central
America.
Asian
Elephant
The Asian
Elephant is an
endangered
species.
Baboon
The baboon is a large
monkey with a long snout
and large cheek pouches.
Boa
Constrictor
The black caiman is a A large constricting
meat-eating reptile from snake from South
South America that can
and Central
Cape
Buffalo
Cape
Hunting
Dog
be found on seasonallyflooded savannas.
America.
Cape Buffalo
are large,
hoofed
mammals that
live in African
savannas.
The Cape
Hunting Dog
hunts in packs
in Africa.
Giraffe
Earthworm
CHEETAH
Fossa
The giraffe
An earthworm is a
The cheetah is the
The fossa is a meat- is the tallest
fastest land animal. Or little animal with a eating mammal from
land
go to a simple cheetah long, soft body and
the island of
animal.
no legs.
coloring printout (just
Madagascar.
the image).
Gnu
The gnu is a Grasshopper Hippopotamus
fast-running, Grasshoppers are
insects that can The hippopotamus is
herding,
a large mammal that
grass-eater hop, walk, and fly.
stays in the water a
from eastern There are about
lot.
Africa. Also 10,000 different
Giraffe and Baby known as the
species of
grasshoppers.
A mother and baby to wildebeest.
color.
Jack Rabbit
Hyena
A meat-eating
mammal that
Impala
Kangaroo
Jack rabbits are
hares; they have Kangaroos hop and
very long legs have pouches. Their
hunts and
A high-jumping,
scavenges prey. lightly-built antelope
from southern Africa.
and long ears.
babies are called
joeys.
Meerkat
Leopard
Mole
Meerkats (also
Leopards are
Lion
known as suricates) Moles are almostwidely-distributed,
blind, burrowing
are a type of
spotted wild cats. A group of lions is
mammals.
called a pride.
mongoose that can
stand upright.
Mouse
Mosquito
Mosquitos are flying insects that
live in moist areas and can often
carry diseases.
Ostrich
Mice are small
The ostrich is the largest
rodents with long,
bird. It can't fly, but it runs
scaly tails.
very fast.
Redbilled Oxpecker
Quagga
Redbilled Oxpeckers are birds that perch on
large mammals in southern Africa.
The Quagga is a recently-extinct
relative of the zebra.
Rhinoceros
Rhea
The rhinoceros is a
large, thick-skinned
mammal with one or
Scorpion
A venomous
arachnid with a
Serval
The Common
two horn-like spikes on large stinger on
Rhea or Nandu is
its head.
its tail.
a large, flightless
bird from South
America.
A long-legged
African wild
cat.
Spectacled Caiman
The Spectacled Caiman is a common
Tiger
meat-eating reptile from fresh water Tigers are large,
habitats in South and Central
fierce cats that
America.
have stripes.
Wallaby
Wallabies are small
to medium-sized
kangaroos.
White Rhinoceros
Wildebeest
The White rhinoceros is a
The wildebeest is a fastlarge rhino with gray skin
The warthog is a and two horn-like spikes on running, herding, grass-eater
wild pig from
from eastern Africa. Also
its head.
Africa.
known as the gnu.
Warthog
Wombat
Zebra
Zorilla
Zebras have The Zorilla is a skunk-like
The wombat is a rare, burrowing
mammal that lives in
black and white
marsupial from the islands of
Africa.
stripes.
Australia and Tasmania.