Hares and Rabbits/Order Lagomorpha/Family Leporidaes
Channel: The Ultimate Survivor Africa
Date: 2020-09-21

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 Family LEPORIDAE (Hares; Rock Rabbits; *Rabbits)

Family LEPORIDAE
 Scrub Hare (Lepus saxatilis)
 Diet: Leaves, stems and rhizomes of dry and green grass, with a preference for green grass.
 Mass: Males 1.5kg – 2.5kg (ave, 2.04) Females 1.93kg-3.18kg (ave 2.41)
 Gestation Period: 42 days
 Birth Peak: Wetter months, Sept – February
 Young: 1-3
 Longevity: 8 years 

Order HYRACOIDAE
 Family: PROCAVIIDAE (Dassie/Hyrax)
 Three hyrax species in the Sub-region (Rock; Tree; Yellow-spotted)
 Kaokeveld Rock Dassie possible sub-species  

Family PROCAVIIDAE
 Rock Hyrax/Dassie (Procavia capensis)
 Diet: Feed on variety of grasses, forbs, herbs, shrubs, including species that are highly aromatic on even some that are poisonous to other animals like the flower and seeds of Euphorbia spp.
 Mass: M 3.2 – 4.5 kg F 2.47 – 3.46kg
 Gestation Period: 7 months
 Birth Peak: December – February (Limpopo/Mpumalanga) – Different from area to area
 Young: 2-3
 Longevity: 12 years

Order PROBOSCIDAE
 Family: ELEPHANTIDAE

Family ELEPHANTIDAE 
 African Elephant (Loxodonta africana)
 Diet: Plant material, both browse and graze. Diet will include grasses, rhizomes of grasses, sedges, reeds, herbs, bulbs, roots of shrubs/trees, bark/cambium of certaintrees, wild fruits, seed pods of certain trees, leaves. Baby elephants sometimes eat the faeces of other elephants (cophrophagy).
 Mass: M 5-6t F 3-4t
 Gestation Period: 22 months
 Birth Peak: all year
 Young: 1
 Longevity:  50- 60 years

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