Tokyo Friends of the Zoo

Animals and Zoos
Summer 2007 issue (No.667)

We have received news about the celebrations for Anura Sri Lankan Elephant at Tama Zoo marking 50 years since she arrived in Japan.
We will introduce our efforts to artificially raise murre chicks and a six-month record of the rescue and release of Common Murre fur seals.

[cover]
Cover description of Scalloped Hammerhead at Tokyo Sea Life Park... Satoshi Tada
[Tama Zoo]
We even walked across the Skywalk! ──Minpy the orangutan
[Ueno Zoo]
A graceful stroll -Pygmy Hippopotamus in the water
[Tokyo Sea Life Park]
Common Murre' "substitute parent" parenting...Michio Fukuda and Kaori Yamaguchi
[Tama Zoo]
Celebrating 50 years since Sri Lankan Elephant Anura arrived in Japan
Readers' Photo Exhibition
Frogs are in danger now! Prevent chytrid fungus! ...Hideyuki Takahashi
"Shin-chan" returns to the sea - From the protection to the release of northern fur seals... Mariko Saito
A la carte
The current state of the Okinawa rail: A challenge to avoid extinction...Takashi Nagamine
[My Observations and Records]
An Invitation to the Sea: Why do Japanese People Love Aquariums? Ryo Ishiwata and Takuto Watanabe
[Poetry and illustrations]
Nanafushi...Poem by Ryo Kizaka, Illustration by Yoshifumi Hasegawa
[Talking about humans and animals]
My hymn to life...Yuichi Takayanagi
[From the zoo lecture]
Living with Wildcats: Tsushima's Nature and the People Who Live There...Hirokazu Kusu
Zoo Topics...From Overseas/Domestic/Tokyo
Library News from Akio Niizuma
I went on a Friendship Tour
──Tateyama's Rock Rock Ptarmigan and Hokuriku's Zoos and Aquariums
others

"Animals and the Zoo" is the magazine of Tokyo Friends of the Zoo. It is published four times a year and delivered to members.
For more information, please see the Friends of the Association membership request page.

Back issues can be viewed at Ueno Zoo reference room. If you would like to view them, please check the reference room's usage guide.

We are looking for photos to submit

In the "Readers' Photo Exhibition" section, we are accepting animal photographs taken at zoos and aquariums by members of Tokyo Friends of the Zoo. Both color and black-and-white photos are welcome.

Please send your submissions to the editorial department's email address, henshubu@tokyo-zoo.net, with the subject line "Readers' Photo Exhibition," and include your address, name, membership number, the name of the zoo/aquarium and animal photographed, and a short note about your work (up to 10MB, 3 photos per submission). For further details, please see the "Readers' Photo Exhibition" page in the magazine.

We will send a small gift to everyone whose submission is featured.