What is "hyraxes"

Usage examples of "hyraxes".

There were many smaller animals, too: mice and rock hyraxes and molerats, cassowaries and grass pipers, a writhing mass of kraal vipers.

Unless you have camped out in the bush, you have never heard such an eerie racket: the quarreling of hyraxes, the hose-pipe bleating of pachyderms, the madman laughter of hyenas.

In fact, at catching birds and tracking small game such as hyraxes and hares, he seemed to me one of the most adept of all the habilines.

No rain had fallen here in at least four or five months, and only mongoose, hyraxes, naked mole rats, lizards, grasshoppers, and snakes were going to find this area of the veldt hospitable to their lifestyles.

All the other animals, including even the hares and the hyraxes, taunted her with impunity.