In PICS: How Animals Are Coping With Rising Mercury And Severe Heatwave This Summer

Large parts of India are sweltering under a heat wave. IMD has said the brutal heat wave will continue at least till May 28. The mercury rose to 49 degrees in Rajasthan's Phalodi on Friday.

A monkey tries to quench its thirst by drinking water from a leaking tap on a hot summer day, in Guwahati, on May 24, 2024.

Peacocks and chinkaras sit in front of a cooler inside an enclosure on a hot summer day, at a zoo in Bikaner | Photo: PTI

Monkeys play in a pond to beat the heat at Vijay Chowk during a hot summer afternoon, in New Delhi | Photo: PTI

A chinkara antelope is covered by the feathers of a peacock nearby as they stand in the shaded part of an enclosure to protect themselves from the heat during a hot summer day, in Bikaner | Photo: PTI

A monkey eats ice-cream for respite from the scorching heat on a hot summer day, in Jammu | Photo: PTI

Two deers in a water body for relief from the scorching heat on a hot summer day at the Assam State Zoo, in Guwahati | Photo: PTI

A man pours water on an elephant on a hot summer day at the Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Botanical Udyan and Zoo, in Mumbai | Photo: PTI

Two tigers cool off in a water body for relief from the scorching heat on a hot summer day, at a zoo in Guwahati | Photo: PTI