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Personal Notes
I collected numerous specimens of Pronolagus C melonurus at Liliefontein Reserve in Little Namaqualand. These beautiful and delicate hare-like creatures in the rocks and boulders that cover the land. Early in the morning and late afternoon they can be seen sitting on a ledge in the sun. At those times they can be approached. At any other time in the day they lay up in rock shelters or in succulent foliage in the rocks and grasses. If you come across one, you will see them for a moment, then they are away in a flash over boulders and ledges and to cover. It is almost impossible to shoot one during midday as they are so alert and so well concealed. They have ledges where they leave their dung. They feed on succulent plants and grasses. Their meat is delicious and tender and has a taste of mountain plants like blipspranger.