Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Travel, nature and adventure. The rock hyrax is an amazing little creature in that its closest living relative is the elephant.

Move over capybaras, there's a new tiny little critter we're totally obsessed with, and it has a rather surprising family tree. While the hyrax might look like a guinea pig, the African Wildlife ...

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SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - It's a distant relative to the elephant and the manatee. In this Zoo Day video story, Safari Park trainer Kim Hanley introduces us to Pimbi, a rock hyrax.

The first animal to live in the Seneca Park Zoo's new Animals of Savannah expansion has arrived in Rochester. A female rock hyrax will be joined later this spring by a male rock hyrax, according to ...

Rock hyraxes, known in southern Africa more often as "dassies", are furry, thickset creatures with short legs and no discernible tails. They spend much of their time sunning themselves on rocky ...

ORIGINALLY classed with the Pachyderma, the hyraxes (rock rabbits or conies) have in turn been placed in the orders Rodentia and Perissodactyla. More recently, they have been placed in a separate ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Rock hyraxes , known in southern Africa more often as“dassies”, are furry, thickset creatures with short legs and no discernible tails. They spend much of their time sunning ...