Oh my god, there's been a severe fungal infection of the acacia trees found in the African Savanna! The Day before I left on my plane back home, I encountered a patch of Savannah that had been utterly decimated by a fungus infection. Let me elaborate
There is a very quickly growing fungus called the Andrewmaoicusplumicusyam fungus or also called Sean Yang by the natives. What Sean Yang does is it clings onto an elephant's nose and slowly kills it off with nagging (a term used by the natives to describe the process of suffocation). Without elephants, Acacia trees grew without stop and matured freely. This caused an abundance of trees to grow which totally pushes out many grasses out of the way and prevents those grasses from growing plentifully. When many of these grasses don't grow plentifully, other herbivorous animals starve to death and then the entire ecosystem collapses because predators don't have enough prey to eat and also starve. For example, a zebra which is a primary consumer would be almost non-existent because the producers, grass, would not be there. Then, the lion, a secondary consumer, would starve because there would be no more zebra to eat. Animals that would be well adapted to this horrible tragedy would be tree eating animals such as giraffes so they wouldn't even bother with grasses. However, because there are now an abundance of trees that are not controlled by elephants, the savanna has almost completely erased and has been replaced by a forest. Because the place is a forest, the weather would be controlled and there would no longer be dry seasons and wet seasons and the place would transform into a forest completely.
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