HoSeung's+Grassland+Biome+page

//Grassland Biome// created by **HoSeung CHANG**


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Photograph example of Grassland **

Animals,plants and microbes that live in Grasslands :

 * Animals:** Hyenas, giraffe, leopards, bisons, lions, zebras etc
 * Plants:** buffalo grass, ryegrass, foxtail, wild oats, purple needlegrass etc

__** Habitats

HYENAS **__
 * Habitat**: All Hyena species generally inhabitat in dry environments like African savannah and desert except the Striped Hyena which habitats in the jungles of India.
 * Prey**: They feed on any animals to any sizes because they have extremely powerful jaws in relation to their small body size and have a very strong digestive system with highly acidic fluids, enabling them to eat their entire prey including skin, teeth, bones etc.
 * Predator**: Even though lions can kill hyenas, they will not try to them. so the animal that will eat hyenas is crocodiles and rarely the hyenas eat each other under a certain circumstances.

__**LEOPARDS**__
 * Habitat:** Leopards likes to live in areas where there are trees. They are found in Africa below the Sahara desert and savannas.
 * Prey:** Leopards hunt on preys that can give it low injury and even though they prefers mideum sized animals such as antelopes and monkeys they still can it most of the animal from the size of dung beetles to Giant Eland.
 * Predators: Leopards doesn't have exactly predators but their cubs can be eaten by hyenas and lions**


 * __LIONS__**
 * Habitat:** they stay in the areas where there are trees as a shade.
 * Prey:** impalas, zebras, buffalo, and warthogs. Old and week lions often feed on humans which are easy to catch.


 * __ZEBRAS__**
 * Habitat:** The zebras can be found in the places such as grasslands, savannas and woodlands etc
 * Prey:** Zebras mainly feed on grasses but in some cases they will also eat shrubs, herbs, twigs, leaves and bark.
 * Predators:** The specieses that prey on zebras include hyenas, leopards, lions and cheetahs etc.

**Abiotic Factors** **TEMPERATURE:** The summer temperature in grassland can be well over 38° C, while winter temperatures can be as low as -40° C.

**Similar biomes existing in the world** ·  The North American Prairies ·  The Pampas of Argentina ·  The Steppes of Russia ·  The Veldt of South Africa ·  The Plains of New Zealand
 * SOIL:** The soil in grassland are deep and are very rich in nutriend because of the plant tissue in the soil that is created by plants dying off and decomposing through the soil. The grassland soils also contains large amount of clay so the plants grow better than in sandy soils.

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Parasitism Relationships between the disimilar organisms, where one of the species(parasite) harm the other for its own benefit. e.g. **bilharzia**(type of a worm which lives inside the human blood vessels)


 * Dodder**(sort of a twig looking plant which twine around the other plants)

__Mutualism__ Relationships between two organisms where both of them take benefits. e.g ants and aphids are a example of mutualism. Ants get sugar fluid produced by aphids while aphids are protected by ants.