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Israel Images ,Israel Pictures and Israel Photos of The Israeli Animals kingdom is a major group of organisms and creatures.Domestic animals or Domestication is a phenomenon whereby a wild biological organism is habituated to survive in the company of, or by the labor of, human beings. Domesticated animals and other organisms are those whose collective behavior, life cycle, or physiology has been altered as a result of their breeding and living conditions under careful human control for multiple generations.Humans have brought these populations under their care for a wide range of reasons: to produce food or valuable commodities such as milk, wool, cotton, or silk, for help with various types of work, transportation and to enjoy as pets. Animals domesticated for home companionship are usually called pets while those domesticated for food are called livestock or farm animals.Israel Wildlife refers to all non-domesticated plants, animals, and other organisms. Domesticated organisms are those that have adapted to survival with the help of or under the control of human , after many generations. Domesticating wild animal species for human benefit has occurred many times all over the planet, and has had a major impact on the environment, both positive and negative.Wildlife can be found in all ecosystems. Deserts, rainforest's, plains, and other areas including the most built-up urban sites all have distinct forms of wildlife. While the term in popular culture usually refers to animals that are untouched by human factors, most scientists agree that this wildlife around the world is impacted by human activities.Humans have historically tended to separate civilization from wildlife in a number of ways; besides the obvious difference in vocabulary, there are differing expectations in the legal, social, and moral sense.Today many kind of wildlife and animals in Israel kept in zoological garden, zoological park, or zoo is a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures and displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred.In Israel the animals are protected by the Israeli animal welfare law. All photos by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye
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A domestic cat in Tel Aviv. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye
Date: March 9, 2008
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A dog in Tel Aviv Israel Beach.Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye
Date: March 9, 2008
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Chinchillas are rabbit-sized, crepuscular rodents native to the Andes mountains in South America. Along with their relatives, viscachas, they belong to the family Chinchillidae.Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye
Date: January 23, 2008
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Iguana is a genus of lizard native to tropical areas of Central and South America and the Caribbean first described by Austrian naturalist Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti in his book Specimen Medicum, Exhibens Synopsin Reptilium Emendatam cum Experimentis circa Venena in 1768. The genus iguana includes two species: the Green Iguana and the Lesser Antillean Iguana.s.Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye
Date: January 23, 2008
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A snake is a elongate reptile of the suborder Serpentes. Like all reptiles, snakes are ectothermic and covered in scales. All snakes are carnivorous and can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids, limbs, external ears, and vestiges of forelimbs. The 2,900 species of snakes spread across every continent except Antarctica ranging in size from the tiny, 10 cm long thread snake to pythons and anacondas over 7 meters long. In order to accommodate snakes' narrow bodies, paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side.Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye
Date: January 23, 2008
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A deadly car accident occurred this morning at Nizanim intersection on highway 4 on Saturday December 15 2007. 3 cars where involve in the accident. One woman died and six more people were evacuated to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon with severe injuries. Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye
Date: January 23, 2008
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Yotvata Hai-Bar Wildlife Preserve and Nature Re...
Yotvata Hai-Bar, Wildlife Preserve and Nature Reserve was created to establish reproduction groups for populations of wild animals that are mentioned in the Bible but have disappeared from our landscape, as well as for other endangered desert animals. The reserve is dotted with acacia trees Acacia tortilis and Acacia raddiana and includes a variety of desert habitats: an acacia forest, a salt marsh, and sand dunes.The reserve has three parts: a three-acre penned-in open area, where herds of herbivorous animals live in conditions similar to those in the wild; the Predators Center, where reptiles, small desert animals, and large predators are on display; and the Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall, where night and day are reversed so that visitors to the reserve can observe nocturnal animals during their active hours.The wildlife preserve has a large population of onagers. This untamable Asiatic wild ass has tremendous physical strength and remarkable fortitude. Onagers bred in the reproduction groups at the Yotvata Hai-Bar have been released into the Negev Desert and are apparently acclimating well to their new surroundings. Other animals on view at the reserve include the African ass (ancestor of the donkey), addax, ostrich, Arabian oryx, and scimitar oryx. Yotvata Hai-Bar is raising reproduction groups of oryx as part of an international campaign to save this species from extinction. Predators are held in cages away from the open area in which the mammals live. A visit to the Predators Center provides a rare opportunity for visitors to observe wolves, sand foxes, Afghan foxes, fennecs, leopards, caracals, wild cat, sand cats, and striped hyenas. Birds of prey and desert reptiles are also housed at the center.The Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall is populated primarily by nocturnal rodents, which generally spend the day cloistered away in the long burrows they have dug. Because their cages are lit during the night but not during the day, they are active during daytime hours. Nocturnal residents of the hall include pygmy gerbils, Wagner's gerbils, Sundevall's jirds, and garden dormouses. Two diurnal rodents on view are the Cairo spiny mouse and the fat sand rat.Visitors tour the open area in their own cars, accompanied by a guide from the reserve, and explore the Predators Center and Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall on their own.Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye
Date: November 21, 2007
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Oryx and Ostrich in Yotvata Hai-Bar Wildlife Pr...
Yotvata Hai-Bar, Wildlife Preserve and Nature Reserve was created to establish reproduction groups for populations of wild animals that are mentioned in the Bible but have disappeared from our landscape, as well as for other endangered desert animals. The reserve is dotted with acacia trees Acacia tortilis and Acacia raddiana and includes a variety of desert habitats: an acacia forest, a salt marsh, and sand dunes.The reserve has three parts: a three-acre penned-in open area, where herds of herbivorous animals live in conditions similar to those in the wild; the Predators Center, where reptiles, small desert animals, and large predators are on display; and the Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall, where night and day are reversed so that visitors to the reserve can observe nocturnal animals during their active hours.The wildlife preserve has a large population of onagers. This untamable Asiatic wild ass has tremendous physical strength and remarkable fortitude. Onagers bred in the reproduction groups at the Yotvata Hai-Bar have been released into the Negev Desert and are apparently acclimating well to their new surroundings. Other animals on view at the reserve include the African ass (ancestor of the donkey), addax, ostrich, Arabian oryx, and scimitar oryx. Yotvata Hai-Bar is raising reproduction groups of oryx as part of an international campaign to save this species from extinction. Predators are held in cages away from the open area in which the mammals live. A visit to the Predators Center provides a rare opportunity for visitors to observe wolves, sand foxes, Afghan foxes, fennecs, leopards, caracals, wild cat, sand cats, and striped hyenas. Birds of prey and desert reptiles are also housed at the center.The Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall is populated primarily by nocturnal rodents, which generally spend the day cloistered away in the long burrows they have dug. Because their cages are lit during the night but not during the day, they are active during daytime hours. Nocturnal residents of the hall include pygmy gerbils, Wagner's gerbils, Sundevall's jirds, and garden dormouses. Two diurnal rodents on view are the Cairo spiny mouse and the fat sand rat.Visitors tour the open area in their own cars, accompanied by a guide from the reserve, and explore the Predators Center and Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall on their own.Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye
Date: November 21, 2007
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Ostrich in Yotvata Hai-Bar Wildlife Preserve an...
Yotvata Hai-Bar, Wildlife Preserve and Nature Reserve was created to establish reproduction groups for populations of wild animals that are mentioned in the Bible but have disappeared from our landscape, as well as for other endangered desert animals. The reserve is dotted with acacia trees Acacia tortilis and Acacia raddiana and includes a variety of desert habitats: an acacia forest, a salt marsh, and sand dunes.The reserve has three parts: a three-acre penned-in open area, where herds of herbivorous animals live in conditions similar to those in the wild; the Predators Center, where reptiles, small desert animals, and large predators are on display; and the Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall, where night and day are reversed so that visitors to the reserve can observe nocturnal animals during their active hours.The wildlife preserve has a large population of onagers. This untamable Asiatic wild ass has tremendous physical strength and remarkable fortitude. Onagers bred in the reproduction groups at the Yotvata Hai-Bar have been released into the Negev Desert and are apparently acclimating well to their new surroundings. Other animals on view at the reserve include the African ass (ancestor of the donkey), addax, ostrich, Arabian oryx, and scimitar oryx. Yotvata Hai-Bar is raising reproduction groups of oryx as part of an international campaign to save this species from extinction. Predators are held in cages away from the open area in which the mammals live. A visit to the Predators Center provides a rare opportunity for visitors to observe wolves, sand foxes, Afghan foxes, fennecs, leopards, caracals, wild cat, sand cats, and striped hyenas. Birds of prey and desert reptiles are also housed at the center.The Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall is populated primarily by nocturnal rodents, which generally spend the day cloistered away in the long burrows they have dug. Because their cages are lit during the night but not during the day, they are active during daytime hours. Nocturnal residents of the hall include pygmy gerbils, Wagner's gerbils, Sundevall's jirds, and garden dormouses. Two diurnal rodents on view are the Cairo spiny mouse and the fat sand rat.Visitors tour the open area in their own cars, accompanied by a guide from the reserve, and explore the Predators Center and Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall on their own.Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye
Date: November 21, 2007
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Yotvata Hai-Bar, Wildlife Preserve and Nature Reserve was created to establish reproduction groups for populations of wild animals that are mentioned in the Bible but have disappeared from our landscape, as well as for other endangered desert animals. The reserve is dotted with acacia trees Acacia tortilis and Acacia raddiana and includes a variety of desert habitats: an acacia forest, a salt marsh, and sand dunes.The reserve has three parts: a three-acre penned-in open area, where herds of herbivorous animals live in conditions similar to those in the wild; the Predators Center, where reptiles, small desert animals, and large predators are on display; and the Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall, where night and day are reversed so that visitors to the reserve can observe nocturnal animals during their active hours.The wildlife preserve has a large population of onagers. This untamable Asiatic wild ass has tremendous physical strength and remarkable fortitude. Onagers bred in the reproduction groups at the Yotvata Hai-Bar have been released into the Negev Desert and are apparently acclimating well to their new surroundings. Other animals on view at the reserve include the African ass (ancestor of the donkey), addax, ostrich, Arabian oryx, and scimitar oryx. Yotvata Hai-Bar is raising reproduction groups of oryx as part of an international campaign to save this species from extinction. Predators are held in cages away from the open area in which the mammals live. A visit to the Predators Center provides a rare opportunity for visitors to observe wolves, sand foxes, Afghan foxes, fennecs, leopards, caracals, wild cat, sand cats, and striped hyenas. Birds of prey and desert reptiles are also housed at the center.The Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall is populated primarily by nocturnal rodents, which generally spend the day cloistered away in the long burrows they have dug. Because their cages are lit during the night but not during the day, they are active during daytime hours. Nocturnal residents of the hall include pygmy gerbils, Wagner's gerbils, Sundevall's jirds, and garden dormouses. Two diurnal rodents on view are the Cairo spiny mouse and the fat sand rat.Visitors tour the open area in their own cars, accompanied by a guide from the reserve, and explore the Predators Center and Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall on their own.Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye
Date: November 21, 2007
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Yotvata Hai-Bar, Wildlife Preserve and Nature Reserve was created to establish reproduction groups for populations of wild animals that are mentioned in the Bible but have disappeared from our landscape, as well as for other endangered desert animals. The reserve is dotted with acacia trees Acacia tortilis and Acacia raddiana and includes a variety of desert habitats: an acacia forest, a salt marsh, and sand dunes.The reserve has three parts: a three-acre penned-in open area, where herds of herbivorous animals live in conditions similar to those in the wild; the Predators Center, where reptiles, small desert animals, and large predators are on display; and the Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall, where night and day are reversed so that visitors to the reserve can observe nocturnal animals during their active hours.The wildlife preserve has a large population of onagers. This untamable Asiatic wild ass has tremendous physical strength and remarkable fortitude. Onagers bred in the reproduction groups at the Yotvata Hai-Bar have been released into the Negev Desert and are apparently acclimating well to their new surroundings. Other animals on view at the reserve include the African ass (ancestor of the donkey), addax, ostrich, Arabian oryx, and scimitar oryx. Yotvata Hai-Bar is raising reproduction groups of oryx as part of an international campaign to save this species from extinction. Predators are held in cages away from the open area in which the mammals live. A visit to the Predators Center provides a rare opportunity for visitors to observe wolves, sand foxes, Afghan foxes, fennecs, leopards, caracals, wild cat, sand cats, and striped hyenas. Birds of prey and desert reptiles are also housed at the center.The Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall is populated primarily by nocturnal rodents, which generally spend the day cloistered away in the long burrows they have dug. Because their cages are lit during the night but not during the day, they are active during daytime hours. Nocturnal residents of the hall include pygmy gerbils, Wagner's gerbils, Sundevall's jirds, and garden dormouses. Two diurnal rodents on view are the Cairo spiny mouse and the fat sand rat.Visitors tour the open area in their own cars, accompanied by a guide from the reserve, and explore the Predators Center and Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall on their own.Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye
Date: November 21, 2007
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Yotvata Hai-Bar, Wildlife Preserve and Nature Reserve was created to establish reproduction groups for populations of wild animals that are mentioned in the Bible but have disappeared from our landscape, as well as for other endangered desert animals. The reserve is dotted with acacia trees Acacia tortilis and Acacia raddiana and includes a variety of desert habitats: an acacia forest, a salt marsh, and sand dunes.The reserve has three parts: a three-acre penned-in open area, where herds of herbivorous animals live in conditions similar to those in the wild; the Predators Center, where reptiles, small desert animals, and large predators are on display; and the Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall, where night and day are reversed so that visitors to the reserve can observe nocturnal animals during their active hours.The wildlife preserve has a large population of onagers. This untamable Asiatic wild ass has tremendous physical strength and remarkable fortitude. Onagers bred in the reproduction groups at the Yotvata Hai-Bar have been released into the Negev Desert and are apparently acclimating well to their new surroundings. Other animals on view at the reserve include the African ass (ancestor of the donkey), addax, ostrich, Arabian oryx, and scimitar oryx. Yotvata Hai-Bar is raising reproduction groups of oryx as part of an international campaign to save this species from extinction. Predators are held in cages away from the open area in which the mammals live. A visit to the Predators Center provides a rare opportunity for visitors to observe wolves, sand foxes, Afghan foxes, fennecs, leopards, caracals, wild cat, sand cats, and striped hyenas. Birds of prey and desert reptiles are also housed at the center.The Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall is populated primarily by nocturnal rodents, which generally spend the day cloistered away in the long burrows they have dug. Because their cages are lit during the night but not during the day, they are active during daytime hours. Nocturnal residents of the hall include pygmy gerbils, Wagner's gerbils, Sundevall's jirds, and garden dormouses. Two diurnal rodents on view are the Cairo spiny mouse and the fat sand rat.Visitors tour the open area in their own cars, accompanied by a guide from the reserve, and explore the Predators Center and Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall on their own.Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye
Date: November 21, 2007
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Yotvata Hai-Bar, Wildlife Preserve and Nature Reserve was created to establish reproduction groups for populations of wild animals that are mentioned in the Bible but have disappeared from our landscape, as well as for other endangered desert animals. The reserve is dotted with acacia trees Acacia tortilis and Acacia raddiana and includes a variety of desert habitats: an acacia forest, a salt marsh, and sand dunes.The reserve has three parts: a three-acre penned-in open area, where herds of herbivorous animals live in conditions similar to those in the wild; the Predators Center, where reptiles, small desert animals, and large predators are on display; and the Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall, where night and day are reversed so that visitors to the reserve can observe nocturnal animals during their active hours.The wildlife preserve has a large population of onagers. This untamable Asiatic wild ass has tremendous physical strength and remarkable fortitude. Onagers bred in the reproduction groups at the Yotvata Hai-Bar have been released into the Negev Desert and are apparently acclimating well to their new surroundings. Other animals on view at the reserve include the African ass (ancestor of the donkey), addax, ostrich, Arabian oryx, and scimitar oryx. Yotvata Hai-Bar is raising reproduction groups of oryx as part of an international campaign to save this species from extinction. Predators are held in cages away from the open area in which the mammals live. A visit to the Predators Center provides a rare opportunity for visitors to observe wolves, sand foxes, Afghan foxes, fennecs, leopards, caracals, wild cat, sand cats, and striped hyenas. Birds of prey and desert reptiles are also housed at the center.The Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall is populated primarily by nocturnal rodents, which generally spend the day cloistered away in the long burrows they have dug. Because their cages are lit during the night but not during the day, they are active during daytime hours. Nocturnal residents of the hall include pygmy gerbils, Wagner's gerbils, Sundevall's jirds, and garden dormouses. Two diurnal rodents on view are the Cairo spiny mouse and the fat sand rat.Visitors tour the open area in their own cars, accompanied by a guide from the reserve, and explore the Predators Center and Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall on their own.Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye
Date: November 21, 2007
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Yotvata Hai-Bar, Wildlife Preserve and Nature Reserve was created to establish reproduction groups for populations of wild animals that are mentioned in the Bible but have disappeared from our landscape, as well as for other endangered desert animals. The reserve is dotted with acacia trees Acacia tortilis and Acacia raddiana and includes a variety of desert habitats: an acacia forest, a salt marsh, and sand dunes.The reserve has three parts: a three-acre penned-in open area, where herds of herbivorous animals live in conditions similar to those in the wild; the Predators Center, where reptiles, small desert animals, and large predators are on display; and the Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall, where night and day are reversed so that visitors to the reserve can observe nocturnal animals during their active hours.The wildlife preserve has a large population of onagers. This untamable Asiatic wild ass has tremendous physical strength and remarkable fortitude. Onagers bred in the reproduction groups at the Yotvata Hai-Bar have been released into the Negev Desert and are apparently acclimating well to their new surroundings. Other animals on view at the reserve include the African ass (ancestor of the donkey), addax, ostrich, Arabian oryx, and scimitar oryx. Yotvata Hai-Bar is raising reproduction groups of oryx as part of an international campaign to save this species from extinction. Predators are held in cages away from the open area in which the mammals live. A visit to the Predators Center provides a rare opportunity for visitors to observe wolves, sand foxes, Afghan foxes, fennecs, leopards, caracals, wild cat, sand cats, and striped hyenas. Birds of prey and desert reptiles are also housed at the center.The Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall is populated primarily by nocturnal rodents, which generally spend the day cloistered away in the long burrows they have dug. Because their cages are lit during the night but not during the day, they are active during daytime hours. Nocturnal residents of the hall include pygmy gerbils, Wagner's gerbils, Sundevall's jirds, and garden dormouses. Two diurnal rodents on view are the Cairo spiny mouse and the fat sand rat.Visitors tour the open area in their own cars, accompanied by a guide from the reserve, and explore the Predators Center and Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall on their own.Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye
Date: November 21, 2007
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Yotvata Hai-Bar, Wildlife Preserve and Nature Reserve was created to establish reproduction groups for populations of wild animals that are mentioned in the Bible but have disappeared from our landscape, as well as for other endangered desert animals. The reserve is dotted with acacia trees Acacia tortilis and Acacia raddiana and includes a variety of desert habitats: an acacia forest, a salt marsh, and sand dunes.The reserve has three parts: a three-acre penned-in open area, where herds of herbivorous animals live in conditions similar to those in the wild; the Predators Center, where reptiles, small desert animals, and large predators are on display; and the Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall, where night and day are reversed so that visitors to the reserve can observe nocturnal animals during their active hours.The wildlife preserve has a large population of onagers. This untamable Asiatic wild ass has tremendous physical strength and remarkable fortitude. Onagers bred in the reproduction groups at the Yotvata Hai-Bar have been released into the Negev Desert and are apparently acclimating well to their new surroundings. Other animals on view at the reserve include the African ass (ancestor of the donkey), addax, ostrich, Arabian oryx, and scimitar oryx. Yotvata Hai-Bar is raising reproduction groups of oryx as part of an international campaign to save this species from extinction. Predators are held in cages away from the open area in which the mammals live. A visit to the Predators Center provides a rare opportunity for visitors to observe wolves, sand foxes, Afghan foxes, fennecs, leopards, caracals, wild cat, sand cats, and striped hyenas. Birds of prey and desert reptiles are also housed at the center.The Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall is populated primarily by nocturnal rodents, which generally spend the day cloistered away in the long burrows they have dug. Because their cages are lit during the night but not during the day, they are active during daytime hours. Nocturnal residents of the hall include pygmy gerbils, Wagner's gerbils, Sundevall's jirds, and garden dormouses. Two diurnal rodents on view are the Cairo spiny mouse and the fat sand rat.Visitors tour the open area in their own cars, accompanied by a guide from the reserve, and explore the Predators Center and Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall on their own.Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye
Date: November 21, 2007
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Yotvata Hai-Bar, Wildlife Preserve and Nature Reserve was created to establish reproduction groups for populations of wild animals that are mentioned in the Bible but have disappeared from our landscape, as well as for other endangered desert animals. The reserve is dotted with acacia trees Acacia tortilis and Acacia raddiana and includes a variety of desert habitats: an acacia forest, a salt marsh, and sand dunes.The reserve has three parts: a three-acre penned-in open area, where herds of herbivorous animals live in conditions similar to those in the wild; the Predators Center, where reptiles, small desert animals, and large predators are on display; and the Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall, where night and day are reversed so that visitors to the reserve can observe nocturnal animals during their active hours.The wildlife preserve has a large population of onagers. This untamable Asiatic wild ass has tremendous physical strength and remarkable fortitude. Onagers bred in the reproduction groups at the Yotvata Hai-Bar have been released into the Negev Desert and are apparently acclimating well to their new surroundings. Other animals on view at the reserve include the African ass (ancestor of the donkey), addax, ostrich, Arabian oryx, and scimitar oryx. Yotvata Hai-Bar is raising reproduction groups of oryx as part of an international campaign to save this species from extinction. Predators are held in cages away from the open area in which the mammals live. A visit to the Predators Center provides a rare opportunity for visitors to observe wolves, sand foxes, Afghan foxes, fennecs, leopards, caracals, wild cat, sand cats, and striped hyenas. Birds of prey and desert reptiles are also housed at the center.The Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall is populated primarily by nocturnal rodents, which generally spend the day cloistered away in the long burrows they have dug. Because their cages are lit during the night but not during the day, they are active during daytime hours. Nocturnal residents of the hall include pygmy gerbils, Wagner's gerbils, Sundevall's jirds, and garden dormouses. Two diurnal rodents on view are the Cairo spiny mouse and the fat sand rat.Visitors tour the open area in their own cars, accompanied by a guide from the reserve, and explore the Predators Center and Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall on their own.Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye
Date: November 21, 2007
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Yotvata Hai-Bar, Wildlife Preserve and Nature Reserve was created to establish reproduction groups for populations of wild animals that are mentioned in the Bible but have disappeared from our landscape, as well as for other endangered desert animals. The reserve is dotted with acacia trees Acacia tortilis and Acacia raddiana and includes a variety of desert habitats: an acacia forest, a salt marsh, and sand dunes.The reserve has three parts: a three-acre penned-in open area, where herds of herbivorous animals live in conditions similar to those in the wild; the Predators Center, where reptiles, small desert animals, and large predators are on display; and the Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall, where night and day are reversed so that visitors to the reserve can observe nocturnal animals during their active hours.The wildlife preserve has a large population of onagers. This untamable Asiatic wild ass has tremendous physical strength and remarkable fortitude. Onagers bred in the reproduction groups at the Yotvata Hai-Bar have been released into the Negev Desert and are apparently acclimating well to their new surroundings. Other animals on view at the reserve include the African ass (ancestor of the donkey), addax, ostrich, Arabian oryx, and scimitar oryx. Yotvata Hai-Bar is raising reproduction groups of oryx as part of an international campaign to save this species from extinction. Predators are held in cages away from the open area in which the mammals live. A visit to the Predators Center provides a rare opportunity for visitors to observe wolves, sand foxes, Afghan foxes, fennecs, leopards, caracals, wild cat, sand cats, and striped hyenas. Birds of prey and desert reptiles are also housed at the center.The Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall is populated primarily by nocturnal rodents, which generally spend the day cloistered away in the long burrows they have dug. Because their cages are lit during the night but not during the day, they are active during daytime hours. Nocturnal residents of the hall include pygmy gerbils, Wagner's gerbils, Sundevall's jirds, and garden dormouses. Two diurnal rodents on view are the Cairo spiny mouse and the fat sand rat.Visitors tour the open area in their own cars, accompanied by a guide from the reserve, and explore the Predators Center and Desert Night Life Exhibition Hall on their own.Photo by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye
Date: November 21, 2007
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