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Stripes & Herds

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GNU
The wildebeest, often called gnu, is the engine of the Serengeti's Great Migration, with roughly 1.5 million animals crossing the plains each year in one of nature's most breathtaking spectacles.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
IMPALA
The impala is one of Africa's most agile antelopes, capable of leaping up to 10 feet high and 33 feet forward in a single bound to escape a pursuing predator.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
ACACIA
The acacia tree is a signature silhouette of the African savanna, its flat-topped canopy offers shade to lions and giraffes alike, and its thorns help protect its leaves from hungry browsers.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
HOOVES
A zebra's hooves are hard enough to deliver a kick powerful enough to injure a lion, making the herd's edge a surprisingly dangerous place for any predator who misjudges the approach.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Stripes & Herds, a free, large-print word search drifting across the golden savanna with zebras, buffalo, and the thundering gnu.

About Stripes & Herds

At dawn, the African grassland stirs with the sound of ten thousand hooves, zebras pressing flank to flank, their bold black-and-white stripes shimmering in the heat haze like a living optical illusion. Buffalo move in slow, dark masses across the plains, patient and unstoppable, while the slender impala flicks its ears at every whisper in the grass. When the dry season calls, entire herds shift across hundreds of miles in a migration as old as the continent itself, raising pillars of dust that drift past lone acacia trees standing watch on the horizon.

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