With the coronavirus keeping Israelis indoors, dozens of jackals have taken over a deserted park in Tel Aviv, scavenging for food in what is usually a playground for joggers and families.
The normally timid animals wander freely among palm trees and across the grass of Hayarkon Park, an oasis in the Mediterranean city that was also a magnet for cyclists and picnickers until the arrival of COVID-19.
The disease has cost almost 120 lives in Israel.
Hayarkon prides itself as the lung of Tel Aviv, complete with a river and enough space for tourists to pitch tents during last year's Eurovision song contest, when hotels were fully booked.
Now, rare human visitors wear masks and use their phones to photograph jackals, the park's new occupants.
Normally, the dog-like animals would only venture out from their burrows or the bushes at night in more secluded parts of the park to search for scraps left by visitors, zoologist Yariv Malichi told AFP.
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"But once you take away the trash people are littering in the park, jackals have a problem -- they need to find another food source," he explained.
"They are wandering far from their territories searching for food," before nightfall, he said.
"They really feel comfortable in the park without people."