Tanzania’s tree-climbing hyraxes have adapted to life without trees

Mongabay
Dec 19, 2025, 10:51 am91 ptsTrending
Despite their name, tree hyraxes — small, furry, nocturnal African mammals — don’t always live in trees. In Tanzania’s Pare mountains, near the border with Kenya, they’ve adapted to life on steep rocky outcrops as forests disappeared over the centuries, a recent study has found. Eastern tree hyraxes…

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