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/hˈaɪɹæks/
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NOUN
- any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes
How To Use hyrax In A Sentence
- Afrotheria is a newly recognized taxon comprising elephants, hyraxes, sea cows, aardvarks, golden moles, tenrecs, and elephant shrews.
- Some other hyracoid species also showed a similar adaptation, but the skeletal trait was most pronounced in Thyrohyrax, he added.
- This type of interaction occurs in horses, elephants, hyraxes, rodents, and lagomorphs (hares and rabbits) but is probably best exemplified in the termites.
- They are classified as ‘subungulates’ and believed to be related to hyraxes and sirenians.
- Horseshoe hunter-gatherers hyenas hyrax rock dassie The Elephant's Secret Sense
- Threatened or now rare species also include blue monkey Cercopithecus mitis stuhlmanii, yellow-backed duiker Cephalophus sylvicultor, sitatunga Tragelophus spekei, giant hog, hylochoerus meinertzhageni, bushpig potomochoerus porcus, the Rwenzori hyrax Dendrohyrax arboreus ruwenzorii and Ruwenzori otter-shrew Micropotamogale ruwenzorii (EN). Rwenzori Mountains National Park, Uganda
- There are also is an isolated population of the Cape dassie Procavia capensis, also tree hyrax Dendrohyrax dorsalis; and bush pig Potamochoerus porcus, warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus, bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus, Maxwell's duiker Cephalophus maxwelli and black duiker C. niger, bay duiker C. dorsalis and forest buffalo Syncerus caffer nanus. Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
- Exceptions to this include the hair of the coney, Hyrax syriacus.
- Nick responded to my post about Badger's God with a link to a nice picture of the hyrax or rock badger that appears in the Bible.
- It is difficult to imagine that the closest living relatives of the modern elephant are the hyrax rock dassie, about the size of a guinea pig, the dugong, the manatee, and the golden mole of the Namib Desert. The Elephant's Secret Sense