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Hyrax
Hyrax meaning
Any of several small, paenungulate herbivorous mammals of the family Procaviidae from the order Hyracoidea, with a bulky frame and fang-like incisors, native to Africa and the Middle East.
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Despite being little over a foot in length, I was astonished to discover that the hyrax is the closest living relative to the elephant – this one spends most of the afternoon sun-bathing on a nearby rocky ledge.
The hyrax population studied lives in the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve near the Dead Sea in Israel.
Just a few of the many indigenous creatures killed are bushbuck, red, blue and forest duiker, hyrax, monkeys and other birds, including fish eagles whose nests have already been raided in Tweni.
Rock hyrax are a small mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa.
He still used subordination terms (rhinos, horses, tapirs), while Perissodactyla stood as a designation for the entire order, including the hyrax.