Infolive.tv Minute - Israel's Lion King Plays With His Cubs

The Zoological Center of Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan is a zoological park in Ramat Gan, Israel. It opened to the general public in 1974 as an African animal park. In 1981, a modern zoo was established in the middle of the park, populated with animals brought from the former Tel Aviv Zoo, which was closed. The combined African Park and zoo are popularly known as the Safari. The African Park and the zoo within occupy 250 acres and include 1,600 animals of different species: 68 species of mammals, 130 species of fowl, and 25 species of reptiles. The Safari is the largest animal collection in the Middle East and is unique in the world, because of the large herds of mixed species of African animals that roam the spaciou