page_title: List of mammals of the Palestinian territories
section_title: Order: Hyracoidea (hyraxes)
hierarchical_section_title: List of mammals of the Palestinian territories / Subclass: Theria / Infraclass: Eutheria / Order: Hyracoidea (hyraxes)
caption_attribution_description: Dassie (Cape Hyrax) photgraphed on Table Mountain, Cape Town. The photo was taken on the rocks near the upper cable car station.
context_page_description: This is a list of mammal species recorded in the Palestinian territories of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
  The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:
  Some species were assessed using an earlier set of criteria. Species assessed using this system have the following instead of near threatened and least concern categories:
context_section_description: The hyraxes are four species of furry, cat-sized, thickset, herbivorous mammals that might resemble rodents at first glance, but have hooves and two caniniform incisors among other features that betray their distant evolutionary relation to elephants. They are native to Africa and the Middle East.
  Family: Procaviidae (hyraxes)
  Genus: Procavia
  Cape hyrax, Procavia capensis LC
caption: Cape hyrax
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