Procavia capensis (Rock hyrax, Dassie)

Dassies crop vegetation with the sides of their mouths, using their molars instead of the incisors as most mammals do. They become active after sunrise and usually bask in the sun for some time before moving off to feed. Dassies have latrines, where they deposit their droppings and urine at a fixed site. After a lengthy pregnancy for a small mammal the young are born fully haired with their eyes open and look like perfect miniatures of the adult. Although like all mammals they do suckle milk from their mothers they are able to move about and eat vegetation soon after birth. Although dassies look like rodents their evolutionary relationships are closest to the elephant and the dugong.

Heterohyrax brucei (Yellow-spotted rock hyrax)

Dendrohyrax arboreus (Tree hyrax)