The Biblical Zoo is perhaps the most popular and favorite site among members of the Haredi sector during the holiest days of the year, and in general during the holidays.
On a short tour of one of the zoos, scattered throughout the country, you can find, alongside the bears, giraffes, and penguins, dozens of Minyan Mincha, consisting of Lithuanians, Sephardim, Belz Hasidim, Satmar, and Breslav, who, especially next to the four-legged ones, manage to reveal a pleasant unity.
The massive Haredi visit is what apparently led the managers of the Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem to bother to emphasize on a sign attached to the fence of the cage that the owner of the animal being kept there is not the "other thing," but another mammal called the "collared peccary," or as it is also written there in Yiddish: "This is not a pig.".
'The 'collared peccary' is a mammal that lives mainly in South America, and belongs to the peccary family, and not to the pig family, as is often mistaken. The confusion between the two animals is so common that on some websites the peccary is referred to as the 'Mexican pig'.
Despite the visual similarity, there are several differences between the peccary and the common pig, such as the number of toes, the structure of the digestive system, the number of teeth, and more.
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