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Stability and change: Lessons from the Serengeti (Ep 72)

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Severe Burning in the Savanna

The serengeri was burned to get rid of tetsy flies, which spread sleeping sickness and other disease. The wilderbeast population increased from 200 thousand to one point three million within the space of 15 years. And in that time, as we talked about, they ate up all the grass. So poaching came under control after the eighties raid. And so elephants have been increasing in the serengedi. At this point, it seems elephants are not capable of changing the savanna into grassland.

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