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🗓️ 17 September 2020
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0:40.1 | They grow to about 20 inches long and weigh less than 10 pounds. |
0:44.9 | So you might not think they'd be the closest living relatives to elephants. |
0:50.0 | Meet the rock hyrax, sometimes called the rock rabbit or the Dassy, common in rocky areas of Africa and the Middle East. |
0:58.0 | They live in groups of up to 80 individuals. |
1:01.2 | The hyrax is, well, they're a mammal that has a rare phenomenon, which is singing. |
1:10.6 | We know a lot of birds singing, but we don't have many mammals that actually perform a song, a complex song with different syllables coming in bouts. |
1:20.9 | And these bouts are complex, and they, along the song, they get more and more complex. |
1:26.9 | They get longer. |
1:28.0 | They include more sounds. |
1:30.3 | Biomusicologist Ishae Weissman from Bariland University and Hebrew University in Israel. |
1:37.2 | We try to understand what the meaning of all this is, why a hyrax would waste time and |
1:43.2 | energy and expose himself also to predators by singing such a loud song. |
1:48.7 | Weissman and his team recorded the songs of male hyraxes during mating season, and they analyzed their structure. |
1:55.4 | We found, in fact, that the song is actually an advertisement for the male quality. |
2:00.7 | And in this song, the rarest and most |
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