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Serengeti Plain

Grassland regions: savanna, prairie, and steppe

Common wildebeest

Australian Outback

Tropical savanna

African elephants

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Serengeti Plain

Grassland regions: savanna, prairie, and steppe

Common wildebeest

Australian Outback

Tropical savanna

African elephants

Observe a brindled gnu herd migrating and grazing followed by zebras, crowned cranes, lions, and hyenas

Observe a tower of giraffes feeding on acacia leaves and oxpeckers combing giraffes' coats for parasites

Take a guided tour of the Australian Outback, visiting the Undara lava tubes, Cobbold Gorge, and Agate Creek

How do African warthogs survive in the wild?

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Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.

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Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.

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