Hyraxes or Dassies

[Toko]

Here you can see the difference: Yellow-spotted Hyrax and Rock Hyrax (and both are from the same day and from Mapungubwe )






and:

[Lisbeth]

The yellow spotted one is more slender, prettier and the spots over the eyes more pronounced

[Toko]

It looks not that fat

[Lisbeth]

Storms River Mouth - Rock Dassie

[Richprins]

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Loosely translated, in 1991 some nitwit brought Free State dassies to what is now Mthethomusha, just across the border from Maqili hill in Southern Kruger, where the weird relict dassie population is! The dassies started spreading nearer to the Park...it is just across the railway and stream, and it was suggested the invaders be "removed" to prevent genetic contamination....although the Maqili dassies must be so inbred by now that should be a project in itself!

Don't know what happened after that?

You won't believe it, but I met up with this "nitwit" this week...an old mate!


Turns out there were dassies on the eastern border anyway, but struggling. She says no way they went into Kruger!

Toks, I can't find that Kloppies dassie pic yet, but anyway, they are there...the little hills next to the road just north of Klopperfontein Dam!

[nan]

I remember somebody saw one of these creatures near Phalaborwa...

[Richprins]

Plenty in the north, nana! The Maqili bunch are deep south, below Pretoriuskop!

[Toko]

They look very grumpy often, your last one even has a mean look, Lis


Shame RP, the kloppie ones are a bit out of range according to most sources

[Richprins]

Kloppies is in the north! Normal rock dassies!

[Toko]

Rock Dassies are not in the far north of Kruger, if you read the books