The cold is here to stay, so our team of experts have activated the protocol against the cold as temperatures drop. The protocol includes measures to ensure the well-being of the species more sensitive to thermal descent.
Tropical species are not used to the drop-in temperatures, for this reason they have different heating systems in their facilities that allow them to reach the ideal heat for them. There are different kind of systems depending the animal like radiant floor, hot air pumps or even electric radiators. These devices can be found in lizards, crocodiles, macaws or primates facilities
The administration of hot porridges is another measure that our zookeepers use to pamper animals during the winter season. In this season of the year, the diet of the specimens is adapted to provide a big caloric intake, increasing the fodder and providing hot porridge to small primates like marmosets or capuchins.
In the case of primates, a supplement of vitamin C is added to their diet to prepare them for the cold and as a measure of prevention against possible colds, which they also have just like humans. On cold days, when the temperature drops below 13 degrees, some animals like the siamang or gibbons do not go outside to preserve their well-being. On rainy and windy days, they stay in their facilities to avoid the loss of heat they may suffer as a consequence of these adverse weather conditions.
The animals adapt to each season; now they are more active during the day when the temperatures are nicer, at night they stay in their facilities to preserve themselves from the cold with straw beds and hot platforms. With cold weather they bath less in their pools and instead they look for sunny places. The zookeepers are responsible to put inside their facilities all the species of the park to protect them from the cold.