"Hyrax" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... circumstance is the 'Phascolotherium' more embryonic, or of a more generalized type, than the modern Opossum; or a 'Lophiodon', or a 'Paleotherium', than a modern 'Tapirus' or 'Hyrax'? ...
— Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life • Thomas H. Huxley
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... Bedouins assembled below the hill, suspecting as usual some magical practices, and, had they known the truth, our journey might have ended abruptly. Descending, I found porcupines' quills in abundance [36], and shot a rock pigeon called Elal- jog—the "Dweller at wells." At the foot a "Baune" or Hyrax Abyssinicus, resembling the Coney of Palestine [37], was observed at its favourite pastime of sunning ...
— First footsteps in East Africa • Richard F. Burton
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... cicadas; but I did not hear the extraordinary screaming whistle of the locomotive cicada, which I had heard in the gardens of the house in which I stayed at Asuncion. This was as remarkable a sound as any animal sound to which I have listened, except only the batrachian-like wailing of the tree hyrax in East Africa; and like the East African mammal this South American insect has a voice, or rather utters a sound which, so far as it resembles any other animal sound, at the beginning remotely suggests batrachian affinities. The locomotive-whistle part of the utterance, however, resembles ...
— Through the Brazilian Wilderness • Theodore Roosevelt
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... assembled below the hill, suspecting as usual some magical practices, and, had they known the truth, our journey might have ended abruptly. Descending, I found porcupines' quills in abundance [36], and shot a rock pigeon called Elal- jog—the "Dweller at wells." At the foot a "Baune" or Hyrax Abyssinicus, resembling the Coney of Palestine [37], was observed at its favourite pastime of ...
— First footsteps in East Africa • Richard F. Burton
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... Form of the Placenta in the Cape Hyrax" "Proceedings of the Zoological Society" (1863) page 237. (The paper was never written in full; the materials and an unfinished drawing of the membranes are at ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley
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