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Keepers at Longleat Safari Park have welcomed the surprise arrival of Arabian rock hyrax triplets.

I was in South Africa recently, and I visited Table Mountain, home to the rock hyrax, a small thing that looks like a rodent.

But studies of rock hyrax calls appear to show that they employ syntax.

In contrast, humans sport only two copies of the gene for p53, and so does elephants’ closest living relative, the rock hyrax.

Another well-established example of deceptive looks in the animal kingdom involves the rock hyrax, elephant and manatee.