The Dassie – A South African Survival Specialist

Director:  Marlen Hundertmark
Production Country: Germany
Production Year։ 2017
Duration։ 52 min

Synopsis

They’re small, cute and rather special – rock hyraxes, also known as dassies. Visitors of the South African coastline marvel at their heart-stopping 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 that’s not the only odd thing about them.