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What plants and animals were shown on the walls of Thutmose III's Festival Hall?

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Map showing the extent of the Ancient Egyptian Empire during the New Kingdom period of Thutmose III, highlighted in orange, covering Egypt, the Nile River valley, Sinai, and stretching northeast through Palestine, Phoenicia, and Syria. The map also marks the Fertile Crescent and neighboring regions such as Assyria and Babylonia in pink, with key cities and geographic features labeled.
Thutmose III

The walls of the Festival Hall of Thutmose III at Karnak feature a pictorial catalog of exotic plants and animals that the pharaoh brought back from his military campaigns in Asia during the 25th year of his reign.12

Specific animals depicted on the walls include:
* A live bear1
* An elephant1
* A giraffe1
* Birds described as "birds that give birth every day," which are believed to be domestic hens—a rarity in the Middle East at that time1