The rock hyrax is one angry looking motherfucker

never heard of these guys before!

The coney thing... I think that comes from the King James Bible, with whoever wrote it not having a clue what the little animals referred to in the OT were.

Not had this picture yet?

http://animalorphanagekenya.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/hyrax_baby_tower.jpg

Hyrax tower!

hyrarchy

I love how cross the baby hyrax looks.

the world's angriest infant

mean rocking hirax:

http://www.besound.com/pushead/hirax.jpg

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x15/theonlymrkevin/gondwanaland/hyrax2.jpg

Cigar-chomping hyrax.

the rock hyrax, my favorite treyf beastie

XD

man this makes want to put on Hate Fear And Power

i dunno why anyone ever got it in their minds to EAT one. though maybe that was the POINT of making hyrax meat treyf.

okay, so i just got the okay from the guys at animal reviews to do a piece or three and just finished a lengthy essay on the household dust mite.
I think maybe a rock hyrax next, after the california condor.

I would imagine they're quite fatty, given they don't appear to do anything other than sit on rocks barking at people.

so did you see any in the flesh in uganda??

No :(

:(

"what is the rock hyrax?" was the answer to a video question on Jeopardy! tonight

nobody got it, and a dumb guy who went home with a big fat goose egg guessed it was an otter even though the category was "rock" words/phrases

what was the clue?

http://www.livingworldimages.com/IMG_5225.jpg

"This, seen here, is one angry looking motherfucker."

lollllllllll

what was the clue?

ahh i don't remember. but it'll be up here by tomorrow

http://www.j-archive.com/showseason.php?season=26

i hope that on monday jaymc plays this john krizel guy who won again tonight, he works americorps in west virginia making $10k/year and so far his four-day winnings are a little over $104,000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5vs0jwKa-E&feature=player_embedded

Saw this on fb today and died. R Hyrax otm I just hope he doesn't need to be anywhere any time soon.

The Hyrax strikes me as being a bit like the Capybara, in that its young are just miniature versions of the adults.

isn't that like every mammal ever?

Well, not human babies. Or puppies. Or kittens. What I mean is that Capybara babies look just as sensible as their parents, and are similarly proportioned, while hyrax babies look just as fierce.

bible says they are not kosher :(

― r|t|c, Tuesday, January 19, 2010 9:33 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

the most important thing about rock hyraxes

lol that video

no two animals have ever hated each other more

bible says they are not kosher :(

why is this so sad? Do you want to eat all cute fierce animals?

who wouldn't?

they look tasty TBH.

>:E

http://www.zazzle.com/hyrax_israeli_rock_rabbit_dog_shirt-155760147338031554

OMG.

http://www.jeremiahblatz.com/personal/pics/Jess_and_Jer_s_Trip_to_Tanzania_January_February_2007/day8/120_Hyrax_Pinwheel_Serengeti_reg.jpg

"Shit, we're surrounded..."

http://pics.blameitonthevoices.com/052011/small_crasher%20hyrax.jpg

Needs Andrei Arshavin in there.

hot rax in the city

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Hyraxbasking.jpg/797px-Hyraxbasking.jpg

lol

That hyrax on the tortoise vid still cracks me up.

I am surprised that it has not came up in this thread that the fossilized urine of this little creature, which is known as Hyraceum, is commonly used in perfume. I was working at my friend's perfume store and one customer asked what was one of the weirdest scents so I gave her a whiff of the pure essence of Hyraceum to see what she thought. She said "well, it just smells like elephants to me". That was probably the most impressive thing that happened to me while working there.

What is it about perfume being made from revolting things like whale barf and deer sweat... and HYDRAX PISS!? :|

Their urine is quite concentrated because they are a desert animal and it's more like gel than water. Whole colonies of them piss in the same designated toilet area for sometimes thousands of years so it really builds up and eventually petrifies. Under those circumstances you can imagine it would have a nice rich scent. ha-ha. This is true by the way.

To answer you question Trayce, these scents are principally worthwhile for perfume because they contain a lot pheromones. Most animal produce and expel pheromones from their body but in the case of hyraceum, ambergris (whale puke), muskdeer, castoreum (a beaver urine/nipple grease secretion), civet and so on, these animals have a couple of things in common - a specific, super-active gland that produces pheromones in huge quantities and also the secretion is not particularly offensive to human noses. ie. the best you can say is that they smell "interesting".

hyrax can I bottle ur pee why because it smell intersting

when i get past the fact that hyrax meat is treyf, then i'll concern myself with their piss.

'er indoors went absolutely freaking nuts over dassies last year, she thinks they're CUTE ffs

I was working at my friend's perfume store and one customer asked what was one of the weirdest scents so I gave her a whiff of the pure essence of Hyraceum to see what she thought. She said "well, it just smells like elephants to me". That was probably the most impressive thing that happened to me while working there.

this IS impressive

everything with a pretty classic pair of posts there

'er indoors went absolutely freaking nuts over dassies last year, she thinks they're CUTE ffs

― Leee Marcello's Putting Challenge (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 09:43 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I just showed her this thread and she just about squeed herself to death!! I CANNOT ACCOUNT FOR THIS BEHAVIOUR

I love the little guys

INVASION OF THE HYRAX: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/14405051

"They're coming into the villages and eating everything they can find!"

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/54424000/jpg/_54424794_img_3467.jpg

The time has come for the revolution, DV! Rise! Rise!