LS1- Grassland Biomes

Prairie dogs

Sientific name:Coynoynomys

Niche:provides food

Eating: Plants

Courtship: Females stick together for life

prairie dogs by Kalinn C

Zebra / Equus quagga

Zebra

By: Camille

Their scientific name is Equus quagga. They can be found in east and southern Africa. Zebras are herbivores and feed mostly on grasses, although they also might browse a bit on the leaves and stems of bushes. They graze for many hours a day, by using their front teeth to clip off the tips of the grass.

American bison

American bison

Ava Nelson:

-Scientific name: Bison bison

-Eating: Bison primarily eat grasses, weeds and leafy plants.

-Mating behavores: They breed throughout the year Wallowing behaviors also increase, where males will roll violently on the ground to display aggression

Mousebirds

Niche-The Mousebrds is about 35 cm (14 inches) long, and they weigh about 57 grams (2 oz).

Eating Behaviors-Mousebirds eatfruits, berries, leaves, seeds and nectar.

Mating Behaviors-Many Mousebirds are monogamous (one mate) but others are polygynous (several mates)

Red Fox

Red Fox

Brayden Drewing

Scientific name: Vulpes vulpes

Niche: A predator which feeds on the small mammals, am- phibians, insects, and fruit found in this habitat.

Eating/predation habits: Eats both plant and animal foods. Food items include small rodents, squirrels, woodchucks, rabbits, birds and eggs, amphibians, and reptiles.

Mating habits/courtship: Mates from January through March.

Interesting facts: Red foxes would be great triathletes because, red foxes can run up to 31 mph, jump over 6 ft high fences, and they can even swim. ​

Maned Wolf

Chrysocyon Brachyurus

The maned wolf is a large canine of South America. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and Paraguay, and is almost extinct in Uruguay. Its markings resemble those of foxes, but it is neither a fox nor a wolf. It is the only species in the genus Chrysocyon.It is the largest canine in South America, weighing 20–30 kg (44–66 lb) and up to 90 cm (35 in) at the withers. Its long, thin legs and dense reddish coat give it an unmistakable appearance. The maned wolf is a crepuscular and omnivorous animal adapted to the open environments of the South American savanna, with an important role in the seed dispersal of fruits, especially the wolf apple (Solanum lycocarpum). The maned wolf is a solitary animal. It communicates primarily by scent marking, but also gives a loud call known as "roar-barking".

Maned Wolf

Ben Orford

bush elephants

bush elephants by abby

scientific name: Loxodonta africana

Diet: grass leaves and bark.

niche: can create openings for new plants to live.

cortship: do not have one mate for life.

Emu

Emus can run at speeds of up to 48 km per hour. Emu's can also swallow large pebbles to help their stomach grind up food.

Emu's and Kangaroo's are thought they were chosen as they are the only two Australian animals that can't move backwards.

Emu

By: lolo w

Savanna Giraffe

Giraffe

Leah D

Savanna giraffes are very unique animals. Their niche is in the trees where they get all of their food. They are amazing animals that have unique mating habits too. They are polyglamous, and the males mate with all the females that are fertile.

Sunflowers

Scientific name:Helianthus

pollination: Bees pollinate sunflowers

seed dispersal: Birds

uses: sunflower seeds used as food

Sunflowers By Kalinn C

red clover

red clover

by abby

scientific name: Trifolium pratense

polination: mainly bumble bees because honey bees are not big enough to polinate red clovers.

niech: it helps with putting more nitrogen in soil.

seed despersal: it drops its seeds or animals can sread them.

baobab trees Ava Nelson

-Scientific name: Adansonia

- he Baobab fruit, which grows up to a foot long, contains tartaric acid and vitamin C and can either be sucked, or soaked in water to make a refreshing drink.

-In seed plants, the evolutionary trend led to a dominant sporophyte generation.

-baobab fruit pulp is used to treat fever, diarrhea, dysentery, smallpox, measles, hemoptysis (the coughing up of blood), and as a painkiller.

Goldenrod

Goldenrod by Kalinn C

Sientific name:Solidago

pollinaton: moths, butterflies, beetles, beneficial wasps, leaf hoppers, midges, and fly species

seed dispersal: The wind dissperes the Goldenrod seeps

uses:treat tuberculosis, diabetes, enlargement of the liver, gout, hemorrhoids, internal bleeding, asthma, and arthritis

Acacia (Acacia)

Acacia

Leah D

Acacia trees are one of the most common trees found in the savana. Acacia trees are very nutritious for giraffes that eat their leaves. This tree can produce hundreds of little flowers, that can turn a yellow or white. Those flowers disperse throughout the grasses and form new trees.

Brayden Drewing

Scientific name: Echinacea

Fruit/flower: Their flowers are perennial flowers that will come back year after year.

Pollination/seed dispersal: These flowers also self-seed as the seeds spill out of the seed head, and they are also dispersed through bird droppings.

Uses: Treatment for the common cold, coughs, bronchitis, upper respiratory infections, and some inflammatory conditions.

Blue Grama

Blue Grama by Camille J

Scientific name: Bouteloua gracilis

Pollination: They polliunate their seeds by the wind blowing them away

Seed dispersal: They disperse the seeds by insects, birds and mammal.

Flower or Fruit: Blue grama has flowers clustered along branches of the flower stalks

Uses: People use the blue grama for erosion control, low maintenance turf plantings, and surface mine revegetation.

Cotton wood trees

Populus

Cotton wood trees from 15-50 meters with trunks up to 2.5 meters in diameter. The bark on young trees is smooth and white, green or dark gray and often has conspicuous lenticels on old trees, it remains smooth in some species, but becomes rough and deeply fissured in others. Male cottonwood trees produce pollen, while the female trees produce cotton.

Cotton wood trees B.O.

Buffalo Grass

Buffalo Grass Katie Coker

Fruit-Buffalo Grass can make fruit. The fruit it can make is called 'seed without plume'

Flower-So the Buffalo Grass has a male and a female area. To the left of the flower you can find the female area. The female area has short stems and bear seeds with contains germination-inhibiting oil. The male area is on the right side.

Pollination-The bees and lady beetles, big-eyed bugs, and syrphid flies help pollinate the Buffalo Grass.

Goldenrods

Goldenrods

By: lolo w

Goldenrod is a flowering herb like plant with many species. It is found in open areas such as ditches, prairies, meadows and savannas. It is native mainly to North America but also to other countries.