These cute little animals live in earth burrows and like to feed on
fruits and small insects. Hyraxes prefer to live in dry hilly country or
alongside mountain slopes, where they can dig their burrows into the
earth. Each of the burrows houses one family of up to twenty animals.
When you look at them it seems hard to believe, that their nearest relative in the animal kingdom is the African Elephant. |
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