Hyraxes: Unexpected Elephant Relatives
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- Please enjoy this video focusing on the small, guinea-pig-like hyraxes, a group of mammals that are often overlooked yet have an interesting history. Their close relationship to elephants and manatees may be difficult to appreciate at first, although an examination of their skeletons and internal anatomy makes the connection much easier to see.
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Having been obsessed with elephants when I was little, I found it absolutely bonkers how these little dudes were some of their closest living relatives. At least with manatees I could sorta see the family resemblance.
I remember being very confused how some weird little hamster things could be related to elephants. But now being older, I can see the smaller details they share in common
This is an April's fool video
@@RaffyART1995 … today is Easter not April fools. And all the information here seems to check out.
@@jurassicswine
Well then, let it be an Easter Fool's Day prank! Besides, today's April Fool's Day, here, in New Zealand.
@@RaffyART1995 Huh? In what sense?
@@RaffyART1995It's not I would recommend reading more 😂
The Easter Hyrax came today!!!!!! :D
Interestingly, and I'll bet you didn't know, just like chocolate, Hyrax have both white and dark meat.
Titanohyrax would be so proud of this video
I, too, have been described as superficially hippo-like.
(Afrotheria family reunion)
Elephants: "They're here! Welcome brethren!"
(shocked face)
Hyraxes and Manatees: "Hey, look everybody! It's cousin proboscidean!"
Elephants: "I've been away from home longer than I thought."
Mammoths: How long have I been asleep?
(It may happen if mammoths' revival experiment succeeds)
The saber toothed tiny elephant. What a discovery.
I once heared that some African natives call the hyrax the elephant's little brother. How did they figure that out?
I guess the toes and the fangies (despite their diet).
And their face structure is somehow similar if you ignore the lack of trunk
I wonder what the extinct relatives sounded like. I hope Apple TV or some studio produce documentaries similar to Prehistoric Planet. And the extant species today doesn't become endangered.
Make Hyraxes Great Again !!!
Thanks for this informative and interesting video.
Great episode.
I'm a wildlife volunteer from Israel. A week ago, I actually rescued a sick hyrex and drove it to wildlife rehabilitation center. They are amazing animals, very flexible, tough for their size, and have a nasty bite with those tasks.
Not to be rude but I'm not 100% on board with the sloth-hyrax diveristy comparassion. During the Late Pleistocene they were literal dozens of species of ground sloths that showed significant ecological variation, and honestly they may had been just as diverse as they were in the Miocene, just more skewed towards megafaunal forms, their decline was incredibly abrupt and occured in a geological blink of an eye. Meanwhile hyrax declined through a span of millions of years.
IMO the situation for hyraxes is more comparable to what happened to Litopternans or Notoungulates, except the very small ones were gone by the Latest Pleistocene, and so, none of them made it.
Thank you, I knew so little about hyraxes
Another wonderful Nature surprise 👍
Channels like yours replaced cable TV. Thanks for the cool shows to watch!
Hey Dr. Polaris, right after the evolution and the history of the Litopterns, why don't you get to think of a suggestion and creating a TH-cam Videos all about the about the evolution and the history of the Prehistoric Marine Reptiles called the Palaeophiidae (Palaeophis), the Extinct Marine Serpentes (Snakes) that are the relatives to the Extant File Snakes, such as Archaeophis, Palaeophis, and Pterosphenus, in the next couple of weeks to think about that one coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍
They have the cutest toe beans.
6:10 Pooh Bear's ancestor, silly old Afrotherian.
So interesting
Island Contient Africa is such a strange and intresting world, with so little information aviable. Just like South America in the past and modern Australia. Despite loving paleontology since childhood only realy understand South America's strange fauna only a few years ago, yet Africas is still so strange and unkown to me.
I think there were artiodacyls in Africa during the Oligocene, namely the hippo-like (and presumably hippo-related) Anthracotheridae. Or did they, too, only arrive in the Early Miocene? If yes, then I'll have to rethink all of Africa in my Spec project...
did hyraxes and pikas ever coexisted in the wild since they often live on similar environments
It is incredible that hyraxes managed to maintain their diversity for so long after Africa connected with Eurasia (even retaining their large forms).
I first heard about this relationship in a book on prehistoric mammals.
When you visit Cape Town, in South Africa, and go on Table Mountain you see a lot of these cute little guys there
They are really cute
I live for your cuteness ratings🥰
When will you make a video about cryptids again?
I knew hyraxes are cool!
Nice marmot
hey polaris can you do a video on barbourofelids
Another excellent presentation! I wish I could get my time machine to work so I could go see all these extinct relatives in person. (and maybe have a barbeque.)
In South Africa we call them "Dassies"
Make a vídeo about the kagu
hello
Bharatherium is related to this genara?
No, Bharattherium is a gondwanathere - and lived during, not after, the time of non-avian dinosaurs.
ok
not that they exist but i wonder if any member of afrotheria ever had the top predicter niche
Did the Afrotheres not produce any carnivorous members?
The poorly understood Ptolemaiida were carnivors
I wonder how the aardvark, Tenrecs, Otter shrews and elephant shrews are related to the elephant.
Same nose
Them as well as the golden mole are all in Afroinsectiphilla the sister group to the Paenungulta (aka the group Hyraxes, Manatees and Elephants are in)
Let’s get them to mate.
No, no, no.According to Kent Hovind( former " science teacher", and US government certified huckster) a Hyrax is the same thing as a hyracotherium, and thus, a horse ancestor).
Micro elephants they are. (Yoda sez)
Their most prominent trait was that they looked nothing like Spinosaurs. There is a reason why Spinosaurs went extinct. Just saying. UPDATE: Yay! Litopterns! The most anti-Spinosaur formed animals that ever existed.
Have I mentioned the two discovered ancient sharks species the jaws, in the walls of the mammoth caves in Kentucky and North Alabama, yes it's true I tried to someone last time and was shut down by the people in the comment section and no word yet from the two yet because they haven't been discovered in exotic place yet I guess North America isn't as exotic as Africa or Germany is. 😡 🙄🤦🏻♀️ Go online for more details.
_" two discovered ancient sharks species the jaws, in the walls of the mammoth caves"_
Old news.
@@AlbertaGeek it was news to me.
We really need more ice age videos for real please 🥺🙏🏻