Imagine that you are an Alpakka.fleece.For you now that you are noel, a fleece -covered Alpakka in a soured garden in Acron, what aWarmIs in fact at the weekend and a so -called pee has just fueled you with a garden hose while filling your swimming pool.
How would you answer now?
"While filling the swimming pool, she squirted Noel and helped him cool down," said Akron Zoo Elena Bell spokesperson."
Beastly temperatures ruralhas forced an early hand from zoological team that carefully checked the comfort and behavior of the animal during hot summer months..
In many ways, zoological animals are no different than us: they enjoy rating in swimming pools, cutting ice blocks and stupid on ice lollings when it gets hot.
In Akron, Luca The Young Andes Condor spent time Dearing on ice between the sessions of tearing apart, an exercise that is meant to tear out the natural behavior of the bird.Had extra swimming pool time and gnawed ice blocks filled with blood and piles of meat.
Peccaries and turtles throughout the country lollipop in regularly topped up walls, while others find comfort among Misters..
"We freeze the juice that comes from their regular diet," said Chris Massaro van Zootampa in Lowry Park in Tampa, Florida, where such goodies are prepared for the cloudy leopards of the plant.From the juice, when we freeze it and make it an ice lolly."
Such measures help prevent animals from being overheated while overlooking their regular diet, said Massaro, senior vice president of Zoological Operations.
Frozen goodies are added to many animal menus in the zoo, the most recently thanks to 150 pounds shaved ice donated by a local company.
To keep zoological animals stimulated when they beat the heat
Thus staff ensures that the circ*mstances also cause the natural habitats of the animals.
"We give them everything they would use in nature as cooling techniques," Massaro said."We deliver what they like and what they need, so that they have a happy, healthy life here in the zoo."
It doesn't mean it can't be fun.For example, employees strive to keep animals both physically and mentally stimulated, even when they defeat the heat that fish eat, for example buckets full of frozen fish.
"It takes a while to melt and they can play with it," Massaro said.
ZOOS usually builds animal populations whose natural habitats are comparable to their zoo.For example, in the Phoenix animal garden in Arizona, the vast majority of animals thrive safely in extreme temperatures.
"The path of Arizona houses animals that are all native to Arizona and are therefore familiar with the heat," says the zoo.
Similarly, the indigenous regions of other animals are dry and dry, such as Africa or the Midden -East, from which zoologic lions, giraffes, cheetahs and Arab onyx arise.
But Phoenix Zookeepers has taken additional measures to supplement the natural heating chimation of the animals, including regularly maintained pools for the lion, the elephant, rhino and duck bear and losing to the zoo elephant and aapabitats.
Other animals get a periodic extinguishing with a sprinkler or garden hose.comfort.
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In the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden in Ohio, a young black rhino - rarely licked - eagerly overlapping at a frozen treat, while a coupling of elephants took a dip in their gigantic pond.
In Massachusetts large shade was erected with suspects in Gorilla Grove -Habitat in Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, where gorillas now snack on frozen berries and diluted fruit juice.
In the tropical forest exhibition of the zoo, Ringtaarten Makis are given ice -looking packaging of frozen insects, while the monkeys of the Brazza mainly arboral art, living in Central Africa Bars.
Half an hour north in Stoneham, Massachusetts, Stone Zoo employees installed a gentleman and fan of Yak, extra fans for reindeer and wolves and losses of the Caribbean flamingos of the zoo, deformed Falk and African sprayed turtles.
In some zoos, animals receive optional access, access to cooler interior spaces so that they can relax behind the scenes.
Giving expensive choices and observing what they do help to guide future care for zoological staff, said Massaro van Zootampa.
"The more we can give them opportunities and see how they choose to spend their days, the more we can understand what they prefer," he said."We see what works."
