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Suffering Dairy Cows in NY Heat Wave Are Too Hot to Produce Milk

6:28 am in animals, cooling, global climate change, new york state, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

dairy-cow-heat-wave-ny.jpg Photo: Kabsik Park under a Creative Commons license. Another victim of the heat wave that brought large swaths of the United States to its knees in July: dairy cows in upstate New York. While humans can sweat, or turn up the air conditioning (or find other ways to keep cool), cows don't have those options. And contrary to what I think would be cool, hot cows don't produce hot ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Zoo Tigers Beat Deathly Heat Wave by Snacking on Bloodsicles

10:42 am in animals, cooling, florida, minnesota, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

tiger-swimming-zoo.jpg Photo: M Glasgow under a Creative Commons license. With an unprecedented spike in temperatures breaking records all over the country, humans aren't the only ones feeling the heat. But just as humans have come up with lot of ways to keep cool, tigers at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay an...Read the full story on TreeHugger