• OTC's rock daisies and dassie rat

    Ongava Tented Camp or OTC is located at the foot of a dolomite hill, and since they are so many rocks ad crevices around, this is a paradise for rock hyraxes or dassies (Procavia capsiens) and dassie rats (Petomus typicusl)

    OTC's rock daisies and dassie rat

    A rock hyrax tuning himself.

    At OTC you'll notice that while some dassies have a dark-near black dorsal spot, others have a whitish-yellowish one. This was describe in a scientific paper from 1966 in Journal of Mammalogy. If we believe this paper, the ones with a whitish dorsal spot would be a subspecies known as Kaokoveld rock dassie (Procavia capensis welwitschii) that is endemic to the region. 

    OTC's rock daisies and dassie rat

    OTC's rock daisies and dassie rat

    Dassie rat showing the typical brushy tail

     


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