Summer is hot on our heals and in this case hot on their paws. You know you are not going to enjoy the glaring sun especially if you are covered in a thick coat of fur and there was nothing you could do about it.
Pelican party: Great white pelicans sit in the shade in their pond at the zoo in Germany.
A chimp nibbles into his large ice treat to keep cool.
These sea lion pups keep close to water.
A zoo employees cools off a tortoise at Nehru Zoological Park on a hot day in Hyderabad. Poor guy must be roasting in that shell.
White Tigers play in a pond to beat the heat at Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad.
A nine-week old greater one-horned rhino calf and his mother were released into the Asian Plains exhibit.
There is no way this bear is getting out of the water any time soon.
A Polar bear at the North Carolina Zoo plunges into his pool (rather dramatically) to take in swim wanting to escape the heat.
Aah the heat! The relief on this horse's face is priceless s his keepers bathe him after a derby.
Take a look at some pictures of our furry friends trying hard to beat the heat. Like this big cat, sticking out his tongue to catch raindrops on a hot spring day at the zoo in Germany.