#Hyraxes

[mammalidentifier]

all kidns of strange and wonderful beafts in the world. how do we even know them all. wh

That’s the beauty of it: we don’t know them all! We’re constantly discovering new species! Granted, some of these discoveries weren’t completely unknown to science and were only misidentified as a different animal, but they’re still pretty cool nonetheless. Here are some mammals that were discovered in the past few years:

The Popa langur (Trachypithecus popa), first described in 2020.

The northern greater glider (Petauroides minor) and the central greater glider (Petauroides armillatus), upgraded from subspecies of the southern greater glider (Petauroides volans), to their own species in 2020.

The Ramari’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon eueu), described from a single beached specimen in 2021!

The striking Halloween colored Nimba myotis bat (Myotis nimbaensis), described in 2021.

The southern maned sloth (Bradypus crinitus), first described in 2022.

The Benin tree hyrax (Dendrohyrax interfluvialis), first described in 2022.

The eastern Mindanao gymnure (Podogymnura intermedia) and the Kitanglad gymnure (podogymnura minima), first described this year, in January 2023.

And the Talpa hakkariensis mole, described just last month in August 2023!

#Monkeys #Gliders #Bats #Whales #Sloths #Hyraxes #Gymnures #Answers #Seeingsmoke

[antiqueanimals]

Dassies by Cuthbert Edmund Swan. From Wild Beasts of the World, Vol. Two. Written by Frank Finn, published in 1909.

Internet Archive

#mammals #hyraxes #rock hyrax #Cuthbert Edmund Swan

[hyrax-hub]

A stupid hyrax meme i made today

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[nightjarring]

When I'm a small prey mammal and I've evolved to survive the barren rocky landscape by optimizing into a tan egg

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[amnhnyc]

🧬DNA sequencing has revealed that elephants belong in a superorder called Afrotheria—meet their closest relatives!

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[heedra]

default animal on this earth.

#its a rock hyrax btw

[blackirishweab]

I love this video so much

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[thereissomethingunderthestairs]

Lesser known small mammals (or mammals whenever i bring up people have no idea what im talking about)

Quoll ..a carnivorous marsupial native to Australia that spends most of the day sleeping in its dens. there have been 111 recorded events of quolls eating human remains (x) (pictured here is a spotted-tail quoll)

Numbat..an insectivorous marsupial from Australia that is diurnal (or is primarily active during the day). unlike other mammals that primarily eat termites, they have a jaw with 50 very small teeth. they live in tree hollows and block the openings with the thick hide of their rump

Hyrax ..a small thickset herbivorous mammal that is more closely related to elephants and sea cows than pikas and marmots. theyre found in africa, and they have rubbery paw pads that help them climb up rocks (this is a rock hyrax)

Solenodon... a venomous, insectivorous little mammal that is easily provoked into a frenzy of squeaking and biting. it uses echolocation to compensate for its poor eyesight, and females have two teats almost located on its backside (above is a cuban solenodon)

Sengi (elephant shrews (or better known as the get a look at the snout species))...is another insectivore that is more closely related to elephants than true shrews. they live in southern Africa and have relatively large brains for their size (a respectable 11 inches) (this is a black and rufous sengi)

Tenrec..omnivorous little mammal that lives in land, sea, underground, and in trees. there are many different subspecies of tenrec that can look like hedgehogs, opossums, rats, and shrews (this is one is a lowland streaked tenrec from madagascar)

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[vintagewildlife]

Rock hyraxes By: K. Fink From: The Complete Encyclopedia of the Animal World 1980

#hyrax #afrotherian #mammal #1980 #1980s #K. Fink #The Complete Encyclopedia of the Animal World (1980)

[textless]

Hello, hyrax family!

These rock hyraxes live on the grounds at the Emakoko Lodge in Nairobi. They look rodent-like, but they are descended from a common ancestor with the elephant, and you can see the resemblance in their toes, and their little tusks (though no tusks are pictured here).

Hyraxes live in groups, eat plants, and retreat to rock crevices or similar places to hide from predators. At the Emakoko, they like to lounge on top of the smaller buildings, soaking up warmth from the solar water heaters. They are roughly rabbit-sized, but sound 100% elephant when they gallop across the roof.

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[mammalidentifier]

do you know who tjis man is im literally obsessed with them. my friends and i think theyre rock hyrax’s but i wanted another opinion

You’re right! Those are rock hyraxes, more precisely Abyssinian rock hyraxes (Procavia capensis habessinicus), the subspecies found in Saudi Arabia. These are cubs so, unlike adult hyraxes, they’re very energetic and rather unafraid of their surroundings, which explains why they climbed all over that man just to get a taste of his tea, heh.

#thank you so much for the question! #Hyraxes

[antiqueanimals]

Procavia capensis. Struik Pocket Guides for South Africa: Mammals. Written by John Skinner. Illustrated by Penny Meakin. 1988.

Internet Archive

#mammals #hyraxes #rock hyrax #Penny Meakin

[troythecatfish]

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[rarebritney]

#rock hyrax

[cryptid-quest]

Cryptid of the Day: Giant Hyrax

Description: The West is not familiar with these rabbit-sized rodents found in Africa, but one species that turned some heads wasn’t even found in Africa, nor in this century. Bronze age carvings found in China depict creatures that resemble long-extinct, rhino-sized hyraxes, millions of years after the species went extinct. Did these hairy mammals survive to as recently as 221 BC?

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