The 21 Basic Mammal Groups
Hyraxes (Order Hyracoidea)
Not the most familiar order of mammals, hyraxes are thick, stubby-legged, plant-eating mammals that look a bit like a cross between a house cat and a rabbit. There are only four species (the yellow-spotted hyrax, the rock hyrax, the western tree hyrax, and the southern tree hyrax), all of them native to Africa and the Middle East. One of the strangest things about hyraxes is their relative lack of internal temperature regulation. They're technically warm-blooded, like all mammals, but spend an inordinate amount of time huddling together in the cold or basking in the sun during the heat of midday.
The 21 Basic Mammal Group caches were placed for HNY21.