Shanghai's Animal Residents Find Cool Ways to Beat the Heat

While we are all enjoying air-conditioning amid the scorching temperatures, the animal residents at city parks found plenty of ways to beat the heat.

At the Shanghai Wild Animal Park in Pudong, ice cubes, succulent fruits and vegetables, and air-conditioners have been arranged to help the animals get through the summer heat.

At the Flamingo area, it is filled with water mist equipment to cool down the area. In daytime, giant pandas are kept indoors with air-conditioning and bamboos until they are let out after 9pm when the temperature drops below 25 degrees Celsius to ensure they have enough activity. Elephants are in groups, swimming in the pond.In addition to supplying more than 8 tons of ice every day to beat the heat, the zoo also updated its summer recipes and add more fruits, vegetables and even traditional Chinese medicine to make the animals feel cool in the summer.