The wildlife of Israel includes the flora and fauna of Israel, which is extremely diverse due to the country's location between the temperate and the tropical zones, bordering the Mediterranean Sea in
Animals of Israel
A Nubian ibex in the Negev desert
An Arabian oryx in the Yotvata wildlife reserve
The Arabian leopard is the smallest leopard subspecies. It was described in 1830 and is native to the Arabian Peninsula, where it was widely distributed in rugged hilly and montane terrain until the l
Wildlife of Israel
…mammals such as the European water vole, the Asiatic cheetah and the Caucasian squirrel went locally extinct. The largest predator in Israel was the Arabian leopard which is now also believed to be locally extinct due to the lack of sightings since 2011. In the modern age many mammal populations such as the sand…
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Captive leopard in the Breeding Centre for Endangered Wildlife, Sharjah
A South Arabian relief from the 5th century BC, in Walters Art Museum
Stuffed leopard from the Sinai Peninsula in the Giza Zoological Museum, Egypt