hyraxes
- plural of hyrax.
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Similarly, animals closely related to elephants, such as hyraxes, also have internal testicles.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 5, 2023
For a half an hour the Brebners and I followed the eagles on their hunt for hyraxes.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2018
At Mutinda Camp, on day two, I showered under a glacier-fed waterfall, my yelps possibly outdoing the nocturnal rock hyraxes, whose default call sounds like they’re being brutally murdered.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 8, 2018
Anteaters, hedgehoglike animals called tenrecs, and rabbitlike hyraxes are doing fine, but gaurs, sloth bears, Bactrian camels, and bearded pigs are not.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 18, 2016
The Kenyan naturalists trapped and netted hundreds of birds, rodents, hyraxes, and bats.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
