Greek zoo serves up frozen meals to animals to help them beat the heat

Ring-tailed lemurs lick a fruit ice lolly at the Attica Zoological Park in Spata suburb, eastern Athens (Thanassis Stavrakis/AP)

A zoo outside Athens is feeding animals with frozen meals to help shield them from the searing heat as sweltering temperatures return to Greece.

Tiembe the lion’s breakfast at the Attica Zoological Park on Friday consisted of chunks of red meat and bone packed in a foot-long block of ice.