Hyraxes are strange primitive mammals. Just as one could easily be forgiven for misclassifying Hyenas as Canids, (They are actually Feliforms) they can just as much be forgiven for misclassifying Hyraxes as Rodents instead of Hyracoidea. This is due to outward appearance. Hyraxes very much resemble Rodents in appearance, but one look at their skull reveals something else. While we can see the zygomatic arch and the maxillar incisors resembling that of a rodent, the proportions of the features, the number and prominence of the molars, the heavy looking mandibular jawbone, and the straight forward facing mandilbular incisors are characteristics that ungulates share.