What is the maximal age a Rock hyrax reaches?
An adult Rock hyrax (Procavia capensis) usually gets as old as 14 years.
Rock hyraxs are around 231 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 203 grams (0.45 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). As a member of the Procaviidae family (genus: Procavia), a Rock hyrax caries out around 2 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 46.7 cm (1′ 7″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The rock hyrax (; Procavia capensis), also called Cape hyrax, rock rabbit, and (in the Bible) coney, is a medium-sized terrestrial mammal native to Africa and the Middle East. Commonly referred to in South Africa as the dassie (/dasiː/), it is one of the five living species of the order Hyracoidea, and the only one in the genus Procavia.Rock hyraxes weigh between 4 kilograms (9 lb) and 5 kilograms (11 lb), and have short ears and tail.The rock hyrax is found at elevations up to 4,200 metres (13,800 ft) in habitats with rock crevices allowing it to escape from predators. It is the only extant terrestrial afrotherian in the Middle East. Hyraxes typically live in groups of 10–80 animals, and forage as a group. It has been reported to use sentries to warn of the approach of predators. Having incomplete thermoregulation, it is most active in the morning and evening, although its activity pattern varies substantially with season and climate.Over most of its range, the rock hyrax is not endangered, and in some areas is considered a minor pest. In Ethiopia, Israel and Jordan, it is a reservoir of the leishmaniasis parasite.Along with other hyrax species and the manatee, this species is the most closely related to the elephant.
Animals of the same family as a Rock hyrax
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Procaviidae):
- Western tree hyrax becoming 10 years old
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax becoming 14 years old
- Southern tree hyrax becoming 12.25 years old
- Southern tree hyrax becoming 10 years old
- Heterohyrax antineae becoming 12 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Rock hyrax
With an average age of 14 years, Rock hyrax are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Greater glider usually reaching 15 years
- Black-crested Sumatran langur usually reaching 16 years
- Günther’s dik-dik usually reaching 14 years
- Javan warty pig usually reaching 14 years
- Thylacine usually reaching 13 years
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby usually reaching 14.33 years
- Common treeshrew usually reaching 12.42 years
- Nyala usually reaching 16 years
- Fennec fox usually reaching 14.58 years
- Brown mouse lemur usually reaching 12 years
Animals with the same number of babies Rock hyrax
The same number of babies at once (2) are born by:
- Island fox
- Jungle cat
- Spotted hyena
- Asian particolored bat
- Asian black bear
- Cape hare
- Seminole bat
- Amami rabbit
- New Guinean jumping mouse
- Lowland ringtail possum
Weighting as much as Rock hyrax
A fully grown Rock hyrax reaches around 2.95 kg (6.51 lbs). So do these animals:
- Quokka weighting 3.03 kilos (6.68 lbs) on average
- Kinkajou weighting 2.45 kilos (5.4 lbs) on average
- Omilteme cottontail weighting 3 kilos (6.61 lbs) on average
- Golden palm civet weighting 2.82 kilos (6.22 lbs) on average
- Margay weighting 3.27 kilos (7.21 lbs) on average
- Cape fox weighting 2.92 kilos (6.44 lbs) on average
- South African springhare weighting 2.55 kilos (5.62 lbs) on average
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain weighting 3.11 kilos (6.86 lbs) on average
- Moustached guenon weighting 3.44 kilos (7.58 lbs) on average
- Pallas’s cat weighting 3.05 kilos (6.72 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Rock hyrax
Those animals grow as big as a Rock hyrax:
- Rüppell’s fox with 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Steppe polecat with 43.2 cm (1′ 6″)
- Nine-banded armadillo with 44.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Kinkajou with 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Banded palm civet with 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Striped skunk with 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Eastern common cuscus with 38.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Flat-headed cat with 46.7 cm (1′ 7″)
- Bengal fox with 52.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- American marten with 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)