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gazelle, imperiled by hunters
and agricultural poisons, now
breeds freely at Ramat Gan.
So do the rhinos, who are
almost extinct their native
Africa.
After completing the
41/2-mile winding route
around the safari park, the
visitor can stretch his legs in
the conventional zoo. This zoo
was moved in 1981 from its
cramped site in central Tel
Aviv to its new quarters in a
specially prepared 45-acre
enclosure within the center.
The facility is run jointly by
the municipalities of Ramat
Gan and Tel Aviv. Shlomo
Lahat, mayor of Tel Aviv, is
chairman of the board.
All of the animals have by
now recovered from the
trauma of that move, when it
took days to entice one of the
elephants to enter the cage on
the specially constructed
trailer.
The carefully tended lawns,
flowering bushes and well-
swept pathways of the zoo con-
trast sharply with the wild
natural look of the safari
park. The visitor to the zoo
can rest on a bench in the
shade of a tree watching the
large collection of apes go
through its antics. The
smaller monkeys are
restricted to cages, where
they groom each other and
climb and leap from netted
wall to wire ceiling with ease.
Several monkeys leap
unhampered by the tiny baby
clutching on their back.
The larger apes live in large
unnetted enclosures,
separated from the public by
a ditch and an electric fence.
The elephants are also kept
in large enclosures, where
they behave naturally. They
can wade into a large pool to
drink and spray themselves
with water or mud.
Most visitors with small
children head for the
children's zoo, where visitors
are encouraged to pet and
feed the animals. More than
in other parts of the zoo,
Israelis and tourists of dif-
ferent backgrounds mingle
easily. Strictly Orthodox
children from B'nai B'rak,
with side curls and modest
clothing, stroke a friendly
sheep. They remark on the
shapely shofar each of its
horns could become. While
two Arab children pick grass
to feed a black goat, a French-
speaking tourist hoists a
small child onto one of the pa-
tient ponies.
To round off the visit one
can sit at the kosher snack
bar at the edge of a large duck
pond, while children tire
themselves out on the wooden
slides and swings nearby.
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