Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
Any species of fairly small, thickset, herbivorous mammals in the order Hyracoidea.
1That little hyrax is reportedly the closest living relative to the elephant.
2The rock hyrax has a pair of long, pointed tusk-like incisors.
3The rock hyrax spends about 95 percent of its time resting.
4Some of these people must be wearing hyrax robes.
5The hillside across the way is covered with thick growth, and a family of hyrax dots the rocks.
6The hyrax has four toes on the front foot and three on the hind foot, and the feet are flat.
7The shadows of the Damara canyon walls were long against the rocks; squawks and chirrs of birds and hyrax trilled through the air.
8Rock hyraxes are gregarious, living in colonies of up to 80 individuals.
9Even highly connected hyraxes tend to die sooner when living in less-egalitarian groups.
10Competition from bovids during the Miocene displaced these ancient hyraxes.
11Probably rock hyraxes, she thought, or some other small rodent.
12Read on for the surprising truth about rock hyraxes.
13Rock Hyraxes spend a lot of time sun-bathing.
14Evidence supporting a common ancestor for hyraxes, elephants and the sirenians comes from some unusual shared characteristics.
15Like elephants, manatees, and dugongs, male hyraxes lack a scrotum and their testicles remain nestled in their abdominal cavity.
16The hyraxes, which are highly social and can live up to 12 years, proved to have communities of variable character.