Which animal survived outside the teiva? I know og melech havashan survives but which animal?
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2Why do you assume there is such an animal? – DonielF Oct 14 '18 at 17:05
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1I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is a riddle – Gershon Gold Oct 14 '18 at 21:43
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The Dove survived outside the ark, at least towards the end of the flood – JJLL Oct 15 '18 at 00:25
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The fish survived in the water around the teivah. Would that count? – sabbahillel Oct 15 '18 at 02:25
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No animals survived as it says 7 (21):
And all flesh perished that moved upon the earth, among the fowl, and among the cattle, and among the beasts, and among all creeping creatures that creep upon the earth and all mankind.
But the fish survived as can be seen in Zevachim 113b
דאמר רב חסדא בדור המבול לא נגזרה גזרה על דגים שבים, שנאמר מכל אשר בחרבה מתו, ולא דגים שבים.
Rav Chisda said “in the generation of the flood, there was no decreee against the fish in the sea as it says, “all that was on the dry land died” Braishis 7 (22) and not the fish in the sea.
@chacham Nisan rightly corrects my answer to say that the re'em was too big to enter the teiva so it survived by putting its nostrils in the teiva. The following are sources
Zevachim 113b where the animal is called the “reima” “רימא" and
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They also say the Leviathan survived as it is a sea creature.
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