How do you keep cool
It's one of the hotter years on record, with the Valley seeing 90-100's for the last month. How do you keep cool? Between air conditioning, watering "the plants" and swimming, I've managed not to melt. But what if you live in the zoo?
Gohgo the polar bear licks ice cubes encased with apples at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka, western Japan, on Saturday July 15, 2006. Some parts of the Japanese archipelago has been gripped by high pressure system in the Pacific Ocean that zoomed the mercury to 38.2 degrees Celsius (100.7 degrees F) at Hamamatsu, central Japan, on Friday. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, Muneyoshi Someya)