India Zoo Animals Beat The Heat With Melons Chilled Milk

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Pelicans arrive to feed as unseen zoo employees throw fish for lunch in a Zoological Park in New Delhi, 07 May 2006. Temperatures across northern India continued to rise with the Indian capital reported 44 degrees Celscius (116 Farenheit) its hottest temperature of the summer on 06 May. Temperatures hovered above normal in states such as Bihar, Haryana and Punjab, the weather office reported, warning the sweltering conditions could continue until the onset of the annual monsoon rains due at the end of June. Scores of cities and towns are also facing massive water shortages and prolonged power cuts, triggering attacks on those running the overwhelmed state-run utilities. Photo courtesy of Prakash Singh and AFP.

by Staff Writers
New Delhi, India (AFP) May 10, 2006
Bears in an Indian zoo are being served chilled milk with glucose to help them beat the scorching summer which has already killed 55 people, officials said Tuesday. Authorities at the zoological park in Jaipur, capital of the desert state of Rajasthan, were also serving melons to other animals as the mercury shot up to 48 degrees Celsius (118.4 degrees Fahrenheit) over the weekend.

"We woke up to the plight of the animals after a leopard cub suffering from sun stroke was brought to our zoo a few days ago," zoo director Manoj Parashar told the Press Trust of India.

The official said the heat made the animals irritable.

Authorities said the zoo had also installed water sprinklers to keep the outdoor animals cool and padded cages with special khas grass which helped keep them cool.

Schools in New Delhi were asked to close up to a week earlier for summer vacation because of the unrelenting weather.

Source: Agence France-Presse

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Multan, Pakistan (AFP) May 09, 2006
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