The elephants eat the leaves and twigs which break the branches of trees, smashing the trunk and stripping the bark of the trees. ... With plenty of grass the mothers can produce plenty of milk. ... The vegetation mostly consists of grasses and forbs, small broad-leaved plants that grow with grasses. ... They have long tap roots that can reach the deep water table, thick, or cork like bark to resist annual fires, trunks that can store water, and leaves that drop off during the winter to conserve water. ... Different species will also eat different parts of the grass. ...

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This leaves the soil open to erosion by water. ... Ploughing up and down slopes causes rainwater to flow down the slope along the furrows, and leads to erosion Overgrazing, where the ability of the grass to regrow the next year is damaged. ...

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Mountain gorillas are descendants of ancestral monkeys and apes found in Africa and Arabia during the start of the Oligocene epoch, which was approximately 34-24 million years ago. The fossil record provides evidence of the hominoid primates found in East Africa about 18-22 million years ago. Th...

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Kung encampment consists of grass huts arranged roughly in a circle, constructed around an area of clearing in the center; these huts are constructed quickly and rarely used for more than a few months at a time. ...

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