Yellow-spotted rock hyrax
Bush Hyrax ( Heterohyrax brucei )
The bush hyrax ( Heterohyrax brucei ) is the only species of the same genus within the hyrax. In anatomy, they mediate between cliff and tree hyraxes, but in the behavior of the rock hyrax clearly similar.
Features
To bush hyrax distinguished from hyrax mainly by the color of hair that cover their backs gland: one is white or black for the hyrax.
Busch and hyraxes have not only largely identical ways of life, sometimes there are even mixed colonies, where families of both species live together. Bush hyraxes are pickier when foraging; they eat leaves of trees and shrubs. In some regions, they have specialized in leaves quite certain plants. On the foraging bush hyrax frequently climb on trees.
System
About the number of species belonging to this genus, there is no consensus. According to current doctrine is only a kind, but often two or three species can be distinguished.