How to pronounce “savanna” in English

Savannah: No. I mean, the cool thing about, you know, being a working dad, which Dad was, is he was always there for us and he did always, I swear,

say savanna, there are islands, right?

And Savannah is going to talk a little bit about that and how she's in an affirming program now.

And Savannah, so you were at school in a pretty rural area in Pennsylvania, right?

So Savannah's here. And she looks okay for the wear so it kinda worked.

So back on the savanna as hunter gatherers, before we had watches and phones, we used to rely on the sun to tell us what time of day

This is wetlands and savanna grasslands.

We evolved on the savanna for threat detection and for finding sources of pleasure, food

And moving onto the savanna entailed a bunch of new challenges.

mammoths on the savanna.

They can create savanna.

of the African savanna and there'd be wildebeests and all sorts of creatures and zebras and gazelle's.

And then Savannah, who is in Pittsburgh, living there in foster care right now.

So this is Savannah, who lives in Pittsburgh.

only tropical savannas have more species of animals than deserts do.

The mayor of Savannah says, if anybody from GE shows up in Savannah, he's going to throw them in jail.

-To see Savannah was to see the face of the reality of what it is in our country.

the African savannah have an even more

Maybe I should ask Savannah this question, but, umm, Googlers are having kids at a pretty rapid rate so there's good regeneration there and I think that's a good thing for the world.

of roaming the savannas and looking for good places to settle often it was a sense of lushness in their surroundings and

if they're out on the savanna or in the woods foraging and they see some food, there's the trigger.

It's we're out on the savanna.

with some Homo erectus plodding across the savanna, stubbing his or her toe on this rock and going, ugh, but then realizing

You're grazing in the savanna.

When you go out into the savanna, there isn't much fruit.

So moving from the forests to the savanna and beyond increases the variability in food intake, because it's a drier environment.

As humans moved into more variable savanna woodland environments, they experienced greater variance, and you can show that your long run expectation is

We come out onto the savanna, we can live in these mixed rain forests-- agricultural lands.

This is old limbic brain on the savanna.

It's kept us alive on the savanna for millions of years and allowed us to become the most successful species on the planet.

is a really great baker out of Savannah, Georgia.

She's from restaurant Gray in Savannah.

And if you live on the savannah in Africa, dawn and dusk are very salient times.

When our ancestors were living on the savannas in Africa, if your parents were afraid of a tiger, it was pretty good to learn that lesson from your parents

And you are somewhere in the Savannah in Africa.

And I went to school in Savannah, Georgia.

all alone in the middle of the Savannah they remember the story the people who had the list forget the list we always

are leaving New York and Charleston and Savannah are not very happy to have this free black population um among them and

Those of our forebears who sat down on the African savanna and said, let me think about Schrodinger's equation, they got eaten.

And while our ancestors were out on the savanna hunting and gathering, that manual override switch was really helpful.

We moved from these forests onto this sort of mixed scrub savanna.

Humans move out of the forest onto the savanna and it's a much more variable place, and this variability is not just--

So when a gazelle is approached on the savanna by a predator, instead of running away right away, it stops.

What was important when you're on the savanna and a tiger is chasing is very different than what the skill set and genetics needed to trade shares

didn't help keep you alive on the savanna.

So one of my clients is now and Kate-- and Savannah, too, that you'll hear from-- are now on in girls' programming.

So why don't we turn and hear from Savannah.

You ready? Savannah? So why don't you tell folks a little bit about-- you're in foster care now, why don't you tell them a little about where you are now,

And then I just want to say that this is when Savannah called our help desk line because she sort of knew, like, OK, this