How Polar Bears Will Keep the Elephants Warm at the Oregon Zoo

Source: http://gizmodo.com/how-polar-bears-will-keep-the-elephants-warm-at-the-ore-1630597939

Zoos are weird places . You have fake safari next to fake tundra next to fake rainforest—all separated by a glass and concrete and a few feet of space. At the Oregon Zoo, a new energy plan manages to both subvert and perfectly embody the zoo's artificial ecology: The excess heat from the polar beat habitat will keep Asian elephants warm.

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