Recent research has uncovered more nuances in the hyrax song, including its variations among different functions, contexts, and reception. Though birds are well-known for their singing, more complex ...

If popular karaoke bars and the long audition lines for American Idol demonstrate anything, it's that people like to express themselves through song — and the bigger the audience, the better. Now ...

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Foundations of complex language have been found in colonies of unusual furry animals called hyraxes. Hyraxes, which resemble rodents but are more closely related to elephants or manatees, often cluck, ...

Hyraxes are medium-sized, plant-eating mammals with soft, gray-brown or yellowish fur that look like a robust, oversized guinea pig or a rabbit with rounded ears and no tail. Native to Africa and the ...

A study of social networks in rock hyraxes has tweaked a conventional wisdom of the Facebook age: that a large network leads to better health and longer life. Among hyraxes, a small herbivorous mammal ...

What is the land animal most closely related to the elephant? Itâ??s the rock hyrax (Procavia capensis), a small furry mammal that lives in rocky landscapes across sub-Saharan Africa and along the ...

A research team has discovered a tree hyrax in the Taita Hills, Kenya, which may belong to a species previously unknown to science. A research team from the University of Helsinki has discovered a ...