(18 Jul 2024)
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Rome, Italy – 18 July 2024
1. Various of tigress playing with frozen meat hanging from tree
2. Two tigers bathing in pool of water
3. Wide of visitors looking at tigers inside their glass cage
4. Wide of zookeepers dropping frozen fish into seal pool
5. Various of seal attempting to eat iced fish
6. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Davide Morelli, zookeeper of the Primates Department:
“We constantly control and look at them, we see how they are, if they have typical behaviour or not, and we try to guarantee their utmost wellbeing, keeping them under control 24hrs.”
7. Zookeepers bringing in iced treats for lemurs who are perched on a branch
8. Lemurs sitting and stretching on a log
9. Various of lemurs licking frozen fruit treats
10. Lemurs from behind with tails hanging
11. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Davide Morelli, zookeeper of the Primated Department:
“We prepare them with fresh fruit daily and with the lemurs especially we are stimulating their natural instinct of licking the ice cube, and they find some freshness and flavour, considering they like fruit the most.”
12. Close of tamarin licking frozen fruit cube
13. Zookeeper hanging frozen treats
14. Various of tamarins licking and pulling up frozen fruit cubes
15. Bear standing up in water and putting paws against glass with zoo visitors watching
16. Wide of zookeeper throwing iced treats into water
17. Close of frozen ice cubes with peaches, fish and greens floating in water
18. Visitors looking at bears in water through glass
19. Close of two bears eating
20. Wide of zoo entry
21. Close of zoo sign reading (Italian): “Zoological garden”
STORYLINE:
Animals at a zoo in Rome have been given frozen treats to help them cool off as the Italian capital sizzled in a scorching heatwave.
The city’s municipality has issued a Level 3 Alert, the highest level of heat warning, as temperatures were expected to reach 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 Fahrenheit) consecutively over the next few days, posing serious health risks to humans and animals alike.
Zookeepers distributed iced fruit and vegetables to the herbivores of the zoo, such as lemurs and tamarins, and frozen meat or fish to tigers, seals and brown bears.
Seven-month-old tigress Kala, who is experiencing her first Roman summer, could be seen inquisitively pawing at the frozen meat, playfully swinging it from side to side.
The two seals Acat and Paco, hailing from Warsaw, nibbled excitedly at their fish as the ice cube slowly meltedd away.
The lemurs astutely pulled the rope of their ice lollies towards them while the tamarins attempted to lick the ice treats without their long whiskers getting in the way.
“We constantly control and look at them”, one of the lemur’s zookeepers said about the strategies adopted to help the animals cope with heatwaves.
“We see how they are, if they have typical behaviour or not, and we try to guarantee their utmost wellbeing, keeping them under control 24hrs,” he added.
AP video shot by Paolo Lucariello
Production by Leila El Sabri
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