(2 Jul 2025)
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Rome, Italy – 2 July 2025
1. Various of tamarin monkeys at Rome zoo being given fruit icicles
2. Various of visitor filming tamarins
3. Tamarin eating fruit icicle
4. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Yitzhak Yadid, Rome zoo general curator:
"We have various species of animals, some suffer in the heat, while others are indifferent to the heat. When I walk by the area of the Grevy’s zebras, they are from Kenya and southern Ethiopia, this heat does not make any difference for them. Also for brown bears, they can dive in their pool, they are active as usual."
5. Zookeeper throwing frozen food out for brown bears
6. Various of brown bears searching for frozen food
7. Various of brown bears eating frozen food
8. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Yitzhak Yadid, Rome zoo general curator:
"It is clear that during these hot days we try to give them something refreshing, just as we have an icicle to cool down, five minute of pleasure, we do the same here. We give icicles to the bears. It’s just a bucket with fish, vegetables and fruit."
9. Various of brown bears eating frozen food
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Yitzhak Yadid, Rome zoo general curator:
"We are using an enrichment program during summertime. We are freezing different food items, depending on the species. We just put water with meat or with fruit or whatever, we put it in the freezer for 24 hours and then you have some icicles for them which you give them in different places. And this is a very simple way to give them five minutes… just to cool down a little bit, something very refreshing."
11. Various of tigers eating frozen meat
12. Zookeeper bringing frozen food to lemurs
13. Various of lemurs eating frozen food
14. Child filming lemur enclosure
15. Lemur eating frozen food
16. Zookeeper feeding melons to hippos
17. Hippo eating melon
18. Visitors watching hippos
19. Various of elephants
STORYLINE:
Rome zoo served up frozen treats to its animals on Wednesday with the Italian capital caught in the severe heat wave affecting much of Europe.
Brown bears, tigers and lemurs were among the mammals to receive the icicles packed with meat, fruit or vegetables.
The zoo’s general curator Yitzhak Yadid said the treats also serve as a source of enrichment to the animals as they figure out how to break through the ice.
Yadid also explained the attraction was constantly monitoring its residents as some were much more used to dealing with the heat than others.
Italy’s Health Ministry has said 17 of the country’s 27 major cities were experiencing a heat wave.
The European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts said that it was closely monitoring the abnormally hot temperatures.
Weather experts link the heat wave to climate change.
AP video shot by Paolo Santalucia
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