While sweaty commuters may be grumbling about the lack of air-con on the Central Line and antsy children are being sent home because of the ‘red heat’ warning, spare a thought for England’s furrier friends.
Instead of taking multiple cold showers a day like those with opposable thumbs, sweltering animals are being sprayed down by fervent zookeepers with hoses to keep their creatures cool in the blistering ‘heat dome’.
Other inventive methods to bring the animals’ body temperatures down in the near 40C heat came in the form of adapted ice lollies.
While animals cannot eat the same ice cream as humans can,
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