With more villages springing up, more and more areas are depleted of grass or browse, reducing the mobility of the nomadic herding system.
Today, the use of grass and browse by herbivores depends, to a large extent, on competition between species of herbivores, food availability and avoidance of predation [ 5].
On Friday several volunteers planted flowers amid the rubble; others played guitars, crashed out in the grass, or browsed the camp's free bookshop.
They show a preference for acacia savannas for their nutritious grasses and browse in the dry season.
As we observe in this study, many other studies report increases in the relative abundances of the grass and sedge browse types following increases in deer density (Halls and Crawford 1960; Kie et al. 1980; Horsley et al. 2003; Rooney et al. 2004).
Grévy's zebras rely on grasses, legumes, and browse for nutrition.
The Grévy's zebra lives in semi-arid grasslands where it feeds on grasses, legumes, and browse; it can survive up to five days without water.
This also gives the foal the chance to start browsing grass, etc., which will further help in developing their digestive system as it gets closer to weaning time (normally at 5-6 months).
Enamel samples of A. recki from FLK Zinj suggest a mixed diet of browse and grass, whereas Kanjera A. recki was predominantly grazing.
Elephants in KNP consume varying proportions of browse to grass in different seasons [15] and it may be that the wider diversity of woody plants in the study animal's winter home range allows elephants to utilise this resource more efficiently after grass production drops off following the dry summer.
