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Procavia capensis (Rock Hyrax)

Synonyms: Cavia capensis; Hyrax capensis

Wikipedia Abstract

The rock hyrax (Procavia capensis) or rock badger, also called the Cape hyrax and commonly referred to in South African English as the dassie, is one of the four living species of the order Hyracoidea, and the only living species in the genus Procavia. Like all hyraxes, it is a medium-sized (~4 kg) terrestrial mammal, superficially resembling a guinea pig with short ears and tail. The closest living relatives to hyraxes are the modern-day elephants and sirenians. The rock hyrax is found across Africa and the Middle East, in habitats with rock crevices in which to escape from predators. It is the only extant terrestrial afrotherian in the Middle East. Hyraxes typically live in groups of 10–80 animals, and forage as a group. They have been reported to use sentries: one or more animals take u
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Infraspecies

Procavia capensis bamendae (Rock hyrax)
Procavia capensis capensis (Rock hyrax)
Procavia capensis capillosa (Rock hyrax)
Procavia capensis erlangeri (Rock hyrax)
Procavia capensis habessinicus (Rock hyrax)
Procavia capensis jacksoni (Rock hyrax)
Procavia capensis jayakari (Rock hyrax)
Procavia capensis johnstoni (Johnston's rock hyrax)
Procavia capensis kerstingi (Rock hyrax)
Procavia capensis mackinderi (Rock hyrax)
Procavia capensis matschiei (Rock hyrax)
Procavia capensis pallida (Rock hyrax)
Procavia capensis ruficeps (Western rock hyrax)
Procavia capensis scioanus (Rock hyrax)
Procavia capensis sharica (Rock hyrax)
Procavia capensis syriacus (Rock hyrax)
Procavia capensis welwitschii (Kaokoveld rock hyrax)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
15
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
42
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 30.4
EDGE Score: 3.45
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  7.937 lbs (3.60 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  205 grams
Male Weight [3]  4.464 lbs (2.025 kg)
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year 4 months
Male Maturity [1]  1 year 4 months
Gestation [1]  7 months 5 days
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  15 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  20 inches (51 cm)
Weaning [1]  3 months 26 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Ficus burtt-davyi (Veld Fig)[4]
Ficus cordata (Namaqua Fig)[5]
Ficus elastica (indian rubber fig)[4]
Lobelia giberroa[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Canis mesomelas (Black-backed Jackal)[7]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Procavia capensis, Nancy Olds and Jeheskel Shoshani, Mammalian Species No. 171, pp. 1-7 (1982)
♦ 7Canis mesomelas, Lyle R. Walton and Damien O. Joly, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 715, pp. 1–9 (2003)
♦ 8International Flea Database
♦ 9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0