Outside, it was the rainy season in this grassland part of South Africa, home to jackals and porcupines and cobra snakes and thorn trees. She knew that deep inside the cave lay thousands of bones.

Different parts of the world refer to their grasslands by different names – for instance ‘savannah’ in Africa, ‘cerrado’ in South ... Grasses grow thick and tall in the rainy season – up to three ...

During the plentiful rainy season, thousands of animals ... During the dry season some grassland gazelles will even take to the African bush in search of water. Gazelles are nimble and beautiful ...