Cold Treats For Zoo Residents

Animals keep cool with frozen treats during hot summer weather Gogo the polar bear grabs an ice cube containing apples at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka, western Japan A white Bengal tiger rests on a block of ice at Chengdu Zoo in Chengdu, China A baby spider monkey cools off in a paddling pool at Xiangjiang Safari Park, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China Detroit Zoo visitors watch a polar bear play with a frozen treat in the cool environment of the underwater Arctic Ring of Life exhibit in Royal Oak, Michigan Zenda, a 5-year-old African lion, keeps cool during the hot weather thanks to a large 200-pound block of ice in its enclosure at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Illinois A tiger keeps cool in the water at the Bronx Zoo as the temperature reached 103 degrees Fahrenheit (39.4C) in New York City A polar bear cools down near a mound of artificial snow at the Moscow Zoo as temperatures reached a high of 35C (95 Fahrenheit) A rhinoceros refreshes itself on a hot summer day at the Madrid Zoo A Syrian brown bear eats fruit frozen in a block of ice as temperatures reach 36C at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo A macaque reaches a block of frozen fruit to refresh itself, in Rome's zoo. Zoo staff offered animals frozen fruit to refresh them as temperatures reached 40 degrees Celsius. A zookeeper sprays water on a hippopotamus to help it cool down in Belgrade as an intense heat wave sweeps Serbia with temperatures reaching 40 degrees Celsius (104 degree Fahrenheit) Polar bear Hudson receives a huge ice block filled with a variety of treats such as raisins, peanuts, pears and other fruit at Brookfield Zoo, Chicago An emu walks through a mist of water set up to cool animals at the Franklin Park Zoo during a summer heat wave in Boston A zookeeper sprays water on two giant pandas to help them cool off in the panda enclosure at the zoo in Weihai city in east China's Shandong province An Asian elephant is sprayed with water to cool it down in Belgrade, Serbia A giant anteater is cooled off with water from a hose at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, Massachusetts A polar bear eats an ice fruit cake inside its enclosure at Prague Zoo A sloth investigates blocks of ice filled with juices, peanuts, fruits, and ginger at Brookfield Zoo, Chicago A keeper gives giant panda Ba Si a cool shower during a heatwave at the Giant Panda Research Centre in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China Two ligers play-fight in the water at Hongshan Forest Zoo in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China Buyan, a male Siberian brown bear, is given a shower by a zoo employee in his enclosure at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk Pearl, a yellow-sided, greencheeked conure, copes in the hot summer weather. A white lioness and a cub cool down in a shade at the zoo in Belgrade, Serbia A polar bear sleeps as the temperature reaches 103 degrees Fahrenheit during the heatwave at the Bronx Zoo in New York