They look like a large Guinea Pig and are often mistaken for rodents.

In fact they are ungulates with flattened hoof like nails.

They are a size of a rabbit, although millions of years ago they were as large as tapir.

Dominant grazing mammals of North Africa.

Surviving hyraxes are robust and swift creatures.

They leap and run around steep rocks and tree branches.

They live in small colonies of about – 80.

Their feet are unequally equipped to provide traction with soft pads kept moist by glandular secretion and muscles retract the middle of the sole to form a section pad.

Their closest relative is the elephant.

These are the seven species of Hyrax