{"id":4111,"date":"2015-03-04T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildlife-travel.com\/bei-den-klippschliefer-in-suedafrika\/"},"modified":"2020-02-16T17:15:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T16:15:28","slug":"visit-south-african-dassies-in-cape-town-and-in-tsitsikamma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildlife-travel.com\/en\/visit-south-african-dassies-in-cape-town-and-in-tsitsikamma\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit South African dassies in Cape Town and in Tsitsikamma"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201eThere is a dassie!\u201c I heard from afar.<\/span><\/p>\n

What? Where?<\/span><\/p>\n

After a three-hour long hike up to the Table Mountain in South African\u2019s famous city Cape Town, I was gazing lost in thought and happily into the distance when I heard people calling excitingly something about dassies.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Klippschliefer\"<\/p>\n

Probably most visitors in South Africa are interested in seeing wild animals anywhere like, for example, elephants, buffaloes, leopards, lions or rhinos (together the “Big Five”). These animals attract many people to South Africa.<\/p>\n

Dassies, in constrast, appear quite inconspicuously when compared to all these bigger animals. To be honest, before Table Mountain visit, I was not aware of meeting dassies on the top among all these rocks, neither. Although they appear not very conspicuously in the first moment, after the first sight, I was so thrilled about these animals.<\/p>\n

\"Klippschliefer\"<\/p>\n

For me it was the first time seeing dassies. They are small, but somehow cute. They look a little bit like guinea pigs, hamsters or maybe rabbits (at least when we just consider the size…). However, their closest relatives are not guinea pigs, hamsters or rabbits. No. Their closest relatives are elephants and manatees! Unbelievable. Therefore, it is time to learn more about these animals.<\/p>\n

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