Animals play it cool in weekend heatwave at wildlife park

As the country sizzled in soaring temperatures last weekend, the residents at Yorkshire Wildlife Park found their own ways to keep cool.

The award-winning park’s pools and water feature offered welcome relief from the sun’s rays to several park residents, including tigers, bears and meerkats, while others just chilled out and took it easy to the delight of visitors.

Tschuna the tiger enjoys a drinkplaceholder image
Tschuna the tiger enjoys a drink
A run through some wet grass was just what this brown bear needed to cool down.placeholder image
A run through some wet grass was just what this brown bear needed to cool down.
Coming from Africa, baboons are well used to hot temperatures.placeholder image
Coming from Africa, baboons are well used to hot temperatures.
A cooling drink was just what was needed for this lemur.placeholder image
A cooling drink was just what was needed for this lemur.
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