Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rock hyraxes, known in southern Africa more often as “dassies”, are furry, thickset creatures with short legs and no discernible ...

MADISON, Wis. -- The Henry Vilas Zoo introduced two new residents on Friday. Frenchie and Rizzo, both female rock hyraxes, come to Madison from the San Antonio Zoological Gardens and Aquarium.

Turns out Toby’s new trick is thousands of years old. A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to ...

The Vilas Zoo has two new residents, a pair of toothy rock hyraxes. Frenchie and Rizzo, both females, came to Madison from the San Antonio Zoological Gardens and Aquarium to join the zoo’s male hyrax, ...

A behavioral study published in the Journal of Animal Ecology has linked reproductive success in male rock hyraxes to their ability to maintain rhythm during courtship songs. Tree hyraxes are ...

For rock hyraxes, small herbivores that are distant evolutionary cousins of elephants, it's not the size of their social networks that matter—it's the level of egalitarianism that exists in those ...

Despite their name, tree hyraxes — small, furry, nocturnal African mammals — don’t always live in trees. In Tanzania’s Pare mountains, near the border with Kenya, they’ve adapted to life on steep ...