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Theyre small cute and rather special They are rock hyraxes also known as dassies Visitors to the South African coastline marvel at their heartstopping capers among the rocks cheerfully ignoring the plunging chasms below They may look like groundhogs but their closest taxonomic relatives are actually the elephant and the manatee And thats not the only odd thing about them

The Dassie is a 2024 documentary with a runtime of 51 minutes.