Animals under high temperature in Wuhan: Black bears are lying on the water "backstroke", camel sitting under the umbrella to avoid summer heat

【Source: Nine Pai News】

At 7:5:00 on July 15th, the Wuhan Meteorological Observatory continued to issue a high -temperature orange warning signal. It is expected that during the day of the day, the highest temperature in most parts of Wuhan will reach 37 ° C and the local area can reach 40 ° C.

At noon that day, the heat wave rolled, and the sun was shining. Few tourists in the Wuhan Wildlife Kingdom in Caidian District, Wuhan. The driver's master snapped on the empty tour bus. The brown bears played the heat in the water in the sun. The lion was unwilling to show up in the house. The wolf was lying on the ground, and the camel from the desert also gathered in the "umbrella" to avoid the summer.

High temperature continues, for animals, heatstroke prevention and cooling are also very important.

To this end, Wuhan Wild Animal Kingdom not only prepared traditional cooling tools such as fans for animals, but also provided animals with drugs for fruit meals, heat -clearing and detoxifying drugs. In the animal leisure area, the zoo has facilities such as sunshade sheds, pools, and shower heads to help animals spend a hot summer day.

[1] Physical cooling: blowing fan, swimming, shower

On July 15, the monkeys moved back from the open -air cage back to the glass room on the top of the mountain, and began a new home life on the first day.

As the weather is gradually getting hot, the outer cage is not suitable for tourists to visit at close range. The zoo creates a glass room for monkeys for their living. In order to strengthen air circulation, the top of the glass room is not closed, but it is covered with iron mesh, so that the room cannot be installed in the room, but the monkeys can rely on the fan to dissipate heat.

In high temperatures close to 40 ° C, many monkeys in the glass room are normal like pressing the static keys, or sleeping with branches, or lying on the ground. Tourists knocked the glass, they were unwilling to take care of, and glanced at each other to sleep.

The breeder said that animals are similar to humans, and hot weather can easily make them lose enthusiasm. They prefer to hiding in the shaded place to sleep and rest, without energy "business", when the climate is suitable, it will be more active.

Jiupai journalists noticed that in order to cool down the monkeys, there are several pots filled with water in the glass room on the branches. The breeder said that from the 16th, they would prepare ice cubes of one or two water basins for each monkey, and put it in the glass room at the hottest at noon, which can generally be maintained until about four o'clock in the afternoon. In order to attract monkeys, the breeder will put some fruits in the ice cubes, "they like to lick the ice cubes to cool down."

In the bird paradise, fairy tale pasture and other places, the sinks and pots of cold water can also be seen everywhere. One staff member introduced that the breeder would use his hands to measure the temperature from time to time. If the water in the sink was exposed to the sun, they would replace them in time.

In the beast area, the four brown bears were bathing in the artificial pool built by the zoo. A black bear was facing the sky, lying on the water, sometimes holding his head, sometimes rolling, and unwilling to leave the pool for a long time.

In the hot summer, "water life" such as swimming, shower and bathing has become the recipe of many small animals. Animal administrators said they would take a bath to the animals every morning and afternoon to help them cool down.

[2] Improve diet: Add the heat and heat dissipation in the water, prepare a fruit meal

In addition to opening fans and cooling water, diet adjustment is also one of the magic weapons for zoos to prevent animal heat stroke.

Many breeders mentioned that in high temperature weather, they will add vitamins, electrolytes and other substances to the drinking water of the animals, or add heat -resistant drugs such as relieving heat and heat dissipation.

In the fairy tales of animals such as alpaca, cows, and camels, a breeder told reporters that since last month, they have taken the heat of the animals according to the veterinarian ratio dose.

Although the color of the water and ordinary tap water are added, the animals do not notice the taste of the water from the past because the drug is added according to the proportion of water.

In summer, animals can enjoy fruit meals. Animals such as monkeys, brown bears, and black bears need to consume a lot of fruits such as watermelon and apples daily.

Worried about the diarrhea in the intake of cold foods, the breeders said that the fruits prepared for them were room temperature.

Jiupai journalist Yang Bingyu Intern reporter Gao Qi

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