Vadodara: Looking at the rising temperature, Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) has instructed the Sayaji Baug zoo to make special arrangements for the birds and animals in there.
Following VMC commissioner H S Patel instructions the zoo authority has made necessary arrangements in view of the rising daytime temperature which had reached upto 44.5 degree Celsius yesterday.
Zoo in-charge Dr C B Patel said they have put up shades alongside cages, placed sprinklers to keep the zoo surrounding cool and ice slabs inside enclosures of male and female bears.
"Special care is being taken for cat family, including lions, tigers, leopard and cats. To avoid dehydration in animals, a dosage of glucose and medicines with vitamins is being administered under supervision of veterinarians. Fruits like water melon, papaya are being fed to birds," he said.
(With PTI inputs)
