Sentences with word «hyrax»

Bush and Rock Hyraxes sometimes occur in mixed - species groups and respond to each other's alarm calls.

Tree hyraxes occur in appropriate habitat in West, Central, and East Africa, as well as in southern Africa.

From the edge of the forest, a group of hyraxes echoed shrieks of alarm.

Hyraxes tend to use communal latrines, resulting in crystallized deposits that whiten the cliff faces below.

Rock and Bush Hyraxes require the presence of suitable refuges in kopjes, large boulder piles, or cliffs.

Although hyraxes superficially resemble large rodents or rabbits, both morphological and molecular phylogenetic studies indicate that they are actually most closely related to elephants and sea cows.

They range from the mysterious indigestibles of the massive sperm whale to the hardened poop of the tiny hyrax — and they're fiercely sought after.

Paleontologist John Kappelman of the University of Texas at Austin is finding the answer in northern Ethiopia, where he recently excavated the remains of five new elephant relatives (including the tusks seen here), huge rodent like hyraxes, and a late Arsinoitherium, a seven - foot - tall rhino - shaped beast that sported a pair of enormous conical horns on its snout.

The efficient ruminant stomachs of gazelle, antelope, and impala ancestors, for instance, probably gave them an advantage over hyraxes, with their simpler stomachs.

Killer whales whistle, finches twitter, and hyraxes wail.

Cole says that studying more hyrax middens could help confirm archaeological evidence of a moist climate in the region between 9000 and 6000 years ago, at the very dawn of agriculture.

Anteaters, hedgehoglike animals called tenrecs, and rabbitlike hyraxes are doing fine, but gaurs, sloth bears, Bactrian camels, and bearded pigs are not.

Hyrax Energy, a private company begun by UW — Madison researcher Ronald Raines, was the first company to emerge.

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Notes on the habits of the Mount Kenya hyrax (Procavia johnstoni mackinderi Thomas).

Hyrax activity patterns are strongly influenced by ambient temperature and predator exposure.

The name hyrax is similarly misleading as it is derived from a Greek word meaning «shrew mouse».

In several parts of Africa, Bush and Rock Hyraxes co-occur.

A team of researchers is analyzing layers of urine deposited by rock hyrax to trace past climate changes in South Africa.

Higher up, weird animals such as the Kilimanjaro tree hyrax are most commonly encountered.

Population dynamics, dispersal and genetic isolation in two species of hyrax (Heterohyrax brucei and Procavia johnstoni) on habitat islands in the Serengeti.

Rock hyraxes are native to Africa and the Middle East and live in colonies of ten to eighty individuals, all of whom have a habit of defecating and urinating in the same location.

Hyraceum, also called «Africa stone,» is the petrified and rocklike excreta of the rock hyrax, a medium - size mammal that looks like a big guinea pig and whose closest living relative, oddly, is the elephant.

The Sirenia is thought to have evolved from four legged land mammals over 60 million years ago, with the closest living relatives being the Proboscidea (elephants) and Hyracoidea (hyraxes).

Working near an archaeological site in southern Yemen, Cole and his colleagues, with the help of a Bedouin guide, identified 25 middens that had been deposited in desert caves by a groundhog - sized animal called a hyrax.

To find out how, Chavan compared implantation in the opossum with that in a range of placental mammals: rabbits, armadillos, and hyraxes, a 3 - kilogram rodentlike mammal that's closely related to elephants.

In the study, the hyraxes tended to form balanced triads and changed unbalanced triads to balanced triads over time.

The oldest, Afrotheria, includes elephants, aardvarks, and hyraxes.

Of the animals he studied, the most closely related turned out to be elephants, aardvarks, manatees, golden moles, elephant shrews, and hyraxes — small rabbitlike animals of Africa and Asia.

Researchers analyzed social bonds in behavioral data from a long - term study of the rock hyrax, a small mammal that lives in colonies across Africa and the Middle East.

Hyraceum, also known as Africa Stone, is the fossilized urine of the rock hyrax, called «dassies» in South Africa.

Rock hyrax is then collected and tinctured to 6 to 10 percent.

Taking up an entire city block, and with more ways in and out than a hyrax burrow, on a day like this the market's dark interior is thronged with shoppers escaping the sun.

Murray also works with rabbits, pocket pets, reptiles, wildlife and even an African rock hyrax.

But the animals here are fun: squirrels, hyraxes and hornbills.

Catch sight of one or more of the forest's other inhabitants — golden monkey, black - fronted duiker, buffalo, elephant, tree hyrax or bushbuck.

The DK Nature Encyclopedia wasn't exactly a classic of children's literature, but I would spend hours flipping through its pages all the same, tracing glossy photos of star - nosed moles and rock hyraxes and blue - footed boobies.

The valley features rivers and streams, rangeland with landraces, mixed forests with oak, pine and olive groves and many economically important plant species, as well as undisturbed wildlife habitats that are home to wolves, hyenas, hyraxes, birds and reptiles.

Hull's «client list» includes «hawks, eagles, pine marten, osprey, owls, spider monkeys, salmon, butterflies, bees, frogs, toads, newts, bats, beaver, songbirds, otter, rock hyrax, small desert species, waterfowl, and occasional humans,» according to her artist statement.

The mammal order Hyracoidea includes just a single family, Procaviidae (hyraxes or «rock rabbits»).

Rock Hyraxes live in a wide range of habitats, from arid deserts to rainforest and from sea level to the alpine zone of Mount Kenya at 3200 - 4200 m. Bush Hyraxes are found from Eritrea and Sudan south to South Africa and Namibia.

Hyraxes are endemic to Africa, with the exception of the Rock Hyrax, whose range extends eastward to Syria and the Arabian Peninsula.

Rock and bush hyraxes are diurnal and gregarious, but tree hyraxes are generally nocturnal and mainly solitary.

Rock Hyraxes often feed heavily on grass, but the other hyraxes rarely do.

Three genera of living hyraxes are recognized: Procavia (Rock Hyrax), Heterohyrax (Bush Hyrax), and Dendrohyrax (tree hyraxes).

Although hyrax populations are believed to be generally stable, the tree hyraxes are hunted for fur and food and are likely very sensitive to habitat degradation as they are confined to primary forests.They also have uses in traditional rituals and traditional medicine.

Among the many predators of hyraxes is Verreaux's Eagle (Aquila verreauxii), which feeds mainly on hyraxes (Symes and Kruger 2012) and is among the most diet - specialized raptor (bird of prey).