Family PROCAVIIDAE

(HYRAXES)

• Small, solidly built mammals with round ears, short legs, and rudimentary stump fortail.

• 30-60cm.

• Palearctic and Afrotropical Regions.

• Tropical forest, woodland, savanna, desert, rock boulders, and alpine zones of higher mountains; from sea level to 4000 m.

• 3 genera, 5 species, 57 taxa.

• No species threatened; none Extinct since 1600.