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Meanings of hyrax in English
Any species of fairly small, thickset, herbivorous mammals in the order Hyracoidea.
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Examples for "dassies"
Examples for "dassies"
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Look, it's no Kruger park, but at Edinburgh Zoo you can spot some dassies and other South African favourites.
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Pythons aren't actually venomous, but their razor-sharp teeth are capable of chewing up dassies and geese in the wild.
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Hartlaub's gulls and kelp gulls also forage in the area, while dassies can be spotted sunning themselves on the surrounding rocks.
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It feeds largely on warm-blooded prey like small antelope, monkeys, game birds and dassies, but also takes leguaans and even crocodiles.
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Table Mountain My favorite photograph of me as a little girl is the one where I was on Table Mountain playing with the dassies.
Usage of hyrax in English
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That little hyrax is reportedly the closest living relative to the elephant.
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The rock hyrax has a pair of long, pointed tusk-like incisors.
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The rock hyrax spends about 95 percent of its time resting.
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Some of these people must be wearing hyrax robes.
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The hillside across the way is covered with thick growth, and a family of hyrax dots the rocks.
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The hyrax has four toes on the front foot and three on the hind foot, and the feet are flat.
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The shadows of the Damara canyon walls were long against the rocks; squawks and chirrs of birds and hyrax trilled through the air.
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Rock hyraxes are gregarious, living in colonies of up to 80 individuals.
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Even highly connected hyraxes tend to die sooner when living in less-egalitarian groups.
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Competition from bovids during the Miocene displaced these ancient hyraxes.
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Probably rock hyraxes, she thought, or some other small rodent.
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Read on for the surprising truth about rock hyraxes.
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Rock Hyraxes spend a lot of time sun-bathing.
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Evidence supporting a common ancestor for hyraxes, elephants and the sirenians comes from some unusual shared characteristics.
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Like elephants, manatees, and dugongs, male hyraxes lack a scrotum and their testicles remain nestled in their abdominal cavity.
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The hyraxes, which are highly social and can live up to 12 years, proved to have communities of variable character.
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