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Animals in Cold Weather continued
Przewalski's horses have access
to their heated indoor areas.
Modeling the heat inside, providing the animals
with a readily accessible refuge from any
Winter Homes particularly brutal weather.
For many of the zoo’s animals, the cold
weather isn’t anything worth flicking a While these animals are used to
tail at. When choosing animals to exhibit, being outside either part- or full-time
our curatorial staff purposefully select during the winter, it’s important to make
species—from Przewalski’s horses and sure they can safely enjoy the colder
Bactrian camels to Amur leopards—that weather while outdoors. Several of our
live in areas with cold or semicold climates. exhibits—including the ones where the
Even so, during the most unfriendly winter Amur leopards, Amur tigers, lions, African
months, many of these animals are offered painted dogs, and Mexican gray wolves
easy access to the indoor parts of their
exhibits. Freezer strips on doorways keep
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