Panda’s provided with Air Conditioning in Chinese Zoo
Who knows what will happen with our summer time this year here in Britain but one thing is for sure, in China they are experiencing sweltering temperatures of over 40 degrees. This temperature is definitely too hot to be out in without any way of cooling yourself and even worse if you are completely covered in fur!
This is the case for the two Panda’s who are called Ya Yun and Exri that live in Changsa Zoo who were apparently very uncomfortable in the Chinese Zoo as temperatures reached unbearable heights. The zoo has provided them with an air conditioning unit in their enclosure to ensure that they can keep cool. They are giant panda’s and apparently completely love their new toy. They even climb a window ledge in order to get closer to the system.
Hu Sheng a zoo keeper there and has said, “It was clear to see that they were uncomfortable with the heat so we moved a large air conditioner into their room. Now they take it in turns to climb up on to it and just chill out.”
Usually the animals spend around 12 hours a day eating but the heat was preventing them from this and needed to be sorted.
Although the pair is together in the Zoo, in the wild they are very solitary animals when they are feeding and looking for bamboo in the forests. They are an endangered species as it is believed that there are less than 2000 still in the wild living under the shelter of the Chinese forest.
Not only are they provided with an air conditioning system in the zoo they are also fed some foods which wouldn’t be in their diet in the wild. Their main source of food is bamboo but the zoo also feeds them honey, fish, leaves, eggs, bananas, yams and oranges.
At least they are now sufficiently cooled and eating properly again, even if it isn’t quite that natural. As for England, things do seem to be warming up so maybe we will get a summer after all. Make sure that your air conditioning systems are ready, although it is highly unlikely to reach temperatures similar to China the heat here can become unbearable too.
Who knows what will happen with our summer time this year here in Britain but one thing is for sure, in China they are experiencing sweltering temperatures of over 40 degrees. This temperature is definitely too hot to be out in without any way of cooling yourself and even worse if you are completely covered in fur!
This is the case for the two Panda’s who are called Ya Yun and Exri that live in Changsa Zoo who were apparently very uncomfortable in the Chinese Zoo as temperatures reached unbearable heights. The zoo has provided them with an air conditioning unit in their enclosure to ensure that they can keep cool. They are giant panda’s and apparently completely love their new toy. They even climb a window ledge in order to get closer to the system.
Hu Sheng a zoo keeper there and has said, “It was clear to see that they were uncomfortable with the heat so we moved a large air conditioner into their room. Now they take it in turns to climb up on to it and just chill out.”
Usually the animals spend around 12 hours a day eating but the heat was preventing them from this and needed to be sorted.
Although the pair is together in the Zoo, in the wild they are very solitary animals when they are feeding and looking for bamboo in the forests. They are an endangered species as it is believed that there are less than 2000 still in the wild living under the shelter of the Chinese forest.
Not only are they provided with an air conditioning system in the zoo they are also fed some foods which wouldn’t be in their diet in the wild. Their main source of food is bamboo but the zoo also feeds them honey, fish, leaves, eggs, bananas, yams and oranges.
At least they are now sufficiently cooled and eating properly again, even if it isn’t quite that natural. As for England, things do seem to be warming up so maybe we will get a summer after all. Make sure that your air conditioning systems are ready, although it is highly unlikely to reach temperatures similar to China the heat here can become unbearable too.