#0267 · 🦊 mammals
Rock Hyrax
🇳🇱 Gewone Klipdas ·Procavia capensis
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what is it?
The rock hyrax ( Procavia capensis ), also called rock badger and Cape hyrax , is commonly referred to in South African English as the dassie . It is one of the four living species of the order Hyracoidea, and the only living species in the genus Procavia . Like all hyraxes, it is a medium-sized (~4 kg) terrestrial mammal, with short ears and tail.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 10,274 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1766 (260 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Rock Hyrax
- Nederlands
- Gewone Klipdas
- scientific name
- Procavia capensis
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Hyracoidea
- family
- Procaviidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 10,274
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1766 by Peter Simon Pallas
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Procaviidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 43086, Wikidata Q323847, GBIF 5219598, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.