“And the ark rested in the seventh month, and the seventeenth day of the month”
As Grant Jeffrey has pointed out, this is also the date of the Resurrection, when mankind is saved (again). Surely not a coincidence.
How did they feed all those animals on the ark for 7 months?
What did the big carnivorous predators eat for 7 months? Take a pair of lions alone. In captivity, a male/female pair of lions needs 15 pounds of fresh meat a day. That is 450 pounds of meat per month, or 3000 lbs for 7 months. Now add in all the other big predators. That is a lot of food.