To reach tasty leaves high up in the African Savannah, of course.

Sarah Harding stared out at the African savannah.

Barren monocultures of maize have been replaced with a landscape that looks more like African savannah.

For years the East African savannah has attracted Europeans eager to experience nature in the raw on safari.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese crossed the Phoenix Park yesterday to officially open the new African Savannah exhibition in Dublin Zoo.

In the African savannah, predators chase down their prey using long, muscular legs that give them an efficient stride.

A figure-four deadfall, for instance, will work just as well in the African savannah as in the northern boreal forest.

White rhinos can play a major role in preventing runaway wildfires in African savannahs: their grazing prevents dry grass building up.

The truth is this horn wasn't cut off a rhino in the African savannah, it was bioengineered in lab in San Francisco.

For a hunter-gatherer on the African savannah, a very black skin is not needed, as the relatively pale Khoisan and pygmies prove.

But when Europe's climate began fluctuating, the forests became more open, becoming more like the African savannahs that modern humans were used to.

Not so sure about aerophobia though, we probably didn't need to worry about that on the African Savannah What can you do about this?

The ape-like creatures from which we evolved most likely did not learn to walk on two legs by hiking across the open African savannah.

The findings suggest this is a mismatch and, because evolution takes millions of years, the lessons learnt on the African savannah are still with us.

After walking half an hour, she was very thirsty, but she had trained herself to go without water for long periods in the African savannah.

"Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators."