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Rock hyraxes (Procavia capensis), photographed July 23th, 2008 at the Bronx zoo.
A gelada (Theropithecus gelada, right) and a rock hyrax (Procavia capensis, left). Photographed at the Bronx zoo on July 5th, 2008.
I'm back! For anyone wondering why I've been reposting old pieces for the last few weeks, it's because my wife and I were enjoying a much-deserved holiday in South Africa. I'll stick a link to some photos shortly, but for the moment, here's some post-holiday geekery for you.
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A meerkat (Suricata suricatta), photographed at the National Zoo.
Nice choppers. It's begging for a caption but I'm drawing a blank.
Something involving vampires perhaps?
"I bid you velcome to my humble abode -- Bleh eh eh eh!"
That explains the video of baboons not messing with the hyrax. I thought they were just being nice...
Not to be confused with its rather rarer relative, the jazz hyrax.
I'd like to have a time machine so I could observe the time in earth history when hyraxes were more diverse, more terrestrial, and much bigger (reaching rhinoceros proportions, I'm told!)
This follows after the elephant, I saw these in Zimbabwe and was told they are the closest living relative of the elephant, their skulls show the similarity. If this is so, might not these be tusks?