While cariocas are melting faster than ice cream on Copacabana, the animals at Rio’s BioParque zoo are living their best VIP life—sucking on gourmet popsicles like tiny celebrities at a pool party. Jaguars fishing frozen chicken chunks out of their tank, monkeys demolishing watermelon icy poles, everyone staying cool in 40°C+ hell. It’s the most wholesome heatwave content since penguins discovered air conditioning. Proof that even apex predators deserve a frosty treat when summer in Rio turns apocalyptic.

Rio de Janeiro zoo animals are treated to popsicles as the city faces scorching summer weather