Numbers and Animals: A Summary of a Wild Year at the Ramat Gan Safari

The Ramat Gan Safari decided to summarize the year 2025 with a numerical recap:

In the category of the year's munchies, our wildlife consumed about seven hundred tons of oats, one hundred eighty tons of wheat, and one hundred fifty tons of alfalfa.

In the quality sleep category, our lion Sahala slept seven thousand three hundred hours, and this isn't laziness—he's simply conserving energy for next year.

It wasn't just hospitals that had a high birth rate, as the Safari welcomed about ninety-five new Thomson's gazelles. Two of them waited until the very last moment to arrive in time for the New Year.

In the category of extremes, the smallest animal in the Safari is the spiny stick insect, weighing just twenty-five grams, while the heaviest animal is Yossi the elephant, weighing about seven tons.

And did anyone see the lungs on Tom Baras, a keeper in the monkey department, who walked four million one hundred forty thousand steps? It seems we need to reinvent the 10,000 steps a day challenge.

And speaking of summaries, thank you to the groups who received guided tours and to the hundreds of thousands of other visitors who came to visit and be part of this interesting year at the Safari.

(Photo: Safari Spokesperson's Office)