Welcome to the grasslands!  Have fun discovering the animals of the biome of the grasslands. Before you go, you will need to know what kinds of animals live in the African grasslands.

          Some of the animas that live in
     the African grasslands are ( look at the
     list below):
 
 

 Mammals
 

Cheetah - an animal that uses it's speed to catch it's prey.

Lion -  a large, strong animal of the cat family, lives in prides.

Elephant - an animal that uses it's trunk to eat, drink, and pick up heavy things. An elephant can pick up about 5 tons.

Hippopotamus - an animal that lives in the water and uses its swimming skills  to get food at the bottom of a lake.

Giraffe - an animal  that uses it's long neck to reach the top of the trees to eat.

Wildebeest - in Africa Wildebeest are called Gnu. Gnus travel from one place to another. They have cross rivers, and travel for miles to look for better food.

Zebra -  animal that has brown and white stripes from up close. This animal depends on it's stripes to hide from it's predators which is called camouflage. This animal is a vegetarian.

Baboon - This animal follows elephants for food. This animal eats tree roots, and
elephant grass.
 

Birds

African Ibis - This animal wades in the water for food. After fishing it stands on any thing dry.

African Vulture- this animal depends on carnivores for food because it eats the left overs from the carnivores' hunt.