From Bizarre Beasts.
Hyraxes are furry potatoes that look a lot like rodents, but at the mammal family reunion, you won’t find them sitting by the groundhogs and chinchillas. Instead, their actual cousins are elephants and sea cows…and we’re not sure which is closer.
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