Can you figure out the savanna mystery? - Cella Wright
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DownloadSomething strange happened here.
Two decades after some ants arrived on this Kenyan savanna,
lions were killing many more buffalo and far fewer zebras.
But how do these seemingly disparate events relate?
Well, let’s rewind.
Around the early 2000s, a species called big-headed ants
landed in Kenya’s Laikipia Plateau,
probably hitching rides on imported produce.
Since their suspected origins on an island in the Indian Ocean,
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Key Vocabulary (19)
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A species is a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding. It is the basic unit of biological classification and taxonomic rank in the hierarchy of living things.
When used as an adjective, 'buffalo' typically refers to items made from the animal's hide or things originating from the city of Buffalo, New York. In linguistics, it is famously used to demonstrate how a word can function as a noun, verb, and adjective simultaneously in complex sentence structures.
Prey is an animal that is caught and killed by another animal for food. It is the animal that is hunted in nature.
A landscape is a painting, photograph, or view of a wide area of land. In art, it usually shows natural scenes like mountains, trees, and rivers instead of people.
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"lots of native acacia ants are nearby."
"lions were killing many more buffalo and far fewer zebras."
"When the ants sense certain vibrations, they secrete alarm pheromones"
"When the ants sense certain vibrations, they secrete alarm pheromones"
"one of around 700 plant species that have evolved mutualistic relationships with..."
"big-headed ants have become among the world’s most widespread invasive species."
"Can you figure out the savanna mystery?"
"big-headed ants landed in Kenya’s Laikipia Plateau, probably hitching rides on i..."
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