Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - January 22, 2025 Fruit and seed ice creams were distributed Wednesday to the animals at Rio de Janeiro's BioParque. (Camera: BRUNO KAIUCA.) FOOTAGE FROM RIO DE JANEIRO'S BIOPARQUE ZOO. STATEMENTS BY MARCOS TRAAD, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR OF THE BIO PARK ZOO; AND LETÍCIA FEITOSA, EMPLOYEE OF THE BIO PARK ZOO. TRAAD: - ‘All animals in our care follow a programme of activities to improve their comfort and well-being. Environmental enrichment serves this purpose. In a situation, for example, like the current one, where the ambient temperature is high, we raise the supply of frozen food, in a differentiated way and, logically, the way this process is carried out tries to simulate a natural behaviour that the animal would have if it were in the wild. And this improves your comfort and well-being’. FEITOSA: - ‘Today we are doing environmental enrichment activities, which are very important activities that stimulate the natural behaviour of the species. So today, in this heat, the activities involve giving them popsicles of the favourite flavours of the different animal groups. Which serves to give them thermal comfort, so they can relax and cool off on this hot day. And for us it is very gratifying to provide this type of activity, because we know that it is having a very positive impact on the wellbeing of these animals that are here with us, with different life stories’. [Restrictions: Spain, Latin America, or the U.S. Hispanic market]