Animals in the capital Sofia's main zoo are cooling off with ice cream as the region endures more high temperatures.
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00:00Animals in the Sofia Zoo are cooling off with homemade ice cream.
00:05Tony the brown bear's treat is an ice cube with fruit and meat.
00:10His caretaker keeps sighting it in a different place, but the 12-year-old bear keeps finding it.
00:16The cooling down and playfulness is an attempt to imitate the behavior of animals in their natural habitat.
00:30It's important for the animals not to stand still and jump,
00:36but to be given methods and ways to move, to look for food and just to imitate their behavior in the wild.
00:51Elephants Frosje and Louise's favorite way to cool off in the summer is by taking a shower.
00:56And the Adax, a type of antelope, can easily spend the whole season lying in the sun.
01:02Apes Pico and Bloom love the heat, but they also love ice cream.
01:21The animals are adapted to each season.
01:26The elephants, the giants and some of the herbivores wear jackets.
01:30I can say that our animals are adapted to our climatic conditions.
01:35And in general, they cope well with temperatures, both in the winter and in the summer.
01:41How do you adapt them to different seasons and different temperatures?
01:45We just stand still here, it shows an effect,
01:49and their systems or morphology make them adapt to the heat and the cold.