Jerusalem Zoo Animals
This tall animal has a long neck and eats from tall trees.
What is a giraffe?
This habitat looks like the African savannah with giraffes and zebras.
What is the African Savannah habitat?
The zoo helps save this big bird, which flies high and eats dead animals.
What is a vulture?
The zoo is located in this city, the capital of Israel.
What is Jerusalem?
The zoo has a special area where children can touch and feed farm animals.
What is the Children’s Zoo? or
What is the petting zoo?
פינת חי
This large animal has big ears and a trunk.
What is an elephant?
This is where animals from the Bible, like deer and ibex, live.
What is the Biblical Wildlife Preserve? or
What is the Bible Lands Wildlife Preserve?
The zoo is helping to protect this mountain goat with long horns. Many of them live in the Dead Sea and Ein Gedi Area.
What is the Nubian ibex?
This famous boat from the Bible is the shape of the zoo’s visitor center towards the far end of the zoo and the zoo entrance.
Noah's Ark
This large grey animal, famous for its long trunk, is one of the zoo's most popular animals.
What is an elephant?
This big cat has a mane and is called the "King of the Jungle."
What is a lion?
This habitat is for animals that live in hot, dry places like the desert.
What is the desert habitat?
The zoo protects this small wild cat that lives in deserts.
What is a sand cat?
The Jerusalem zoo also goes by this popular name.
The Biblical Zoo
The zoo has a large pond where you can see these animals with hard shells swimming.
What are turtles?
This small desert cat lives at the zoo and loves dry places.
What is a sand cat?
This place has water and homes for fish, frogs, and turtles.
What is the pond or aquatic habitat?
This zoo animal used to live in Israel, and now the zoo is helping it return.
What is the Persian fallow deer?
The Jerusalem zoo was in this neighborhood before it was moved to the Malha area?
Romema
The zoo has this African bird, which is black and white and very tall.
What is an ostrich?
This bird is the largest in the world but cannot fly.
What is an ostrich?
This special house is for snakes, lizards, and other cold-blooded animals.
What is the reptile house? or
What is the "reptile caves"?
The zoo helps breed this very rare, spotted big cat that lives in the Middle East.
What is the Arabian leopard?
The zoo moved to its current home in this year.
What is 1993?
The Jerusalem Zoo got its name Biblical Zoo for this reason.
Why did when the zoo first opened in 1939 each animal had a special sign with a verse from the Bible (Tanakh) next to its name and explanation?
(This was dropped when it moved to Malkah)