The shaded slopes below Gan Ha'Em are home to a compact zoo with free-roaming peacocks, an aviary, a reptile house and habitats for monkeys, meerkats, ibexes, deer and more, though enclosures for larger animals like bears and Bengal tigers seem rather small.
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