Tokyo Friends of the Zoo

Animals and Zoos
Fall 2007 issue (No.668)

With the cooperation of Inokashira Park Zoo, we investigated how squirrels eat walnuts.
We will introduce the challenge of creating a group from two Common Wolf, and efforts to raise and breed water Water Spider, which spend their entire lives underwater.

[cover]
Crested Sableye at Inokashira Park Zoo Cover description...Tsuneo Kizaki
[Ueno Zoo and Tama Zoo]
A new addition to the team!
[Tokyo Sea Life Park]
Jawfish Collection in Mexico....Hiroshi Nakamura
How do Japanese Squirrel eat walnuts? ──Behavioral research at the zoo... Noriko Tamura
[Ueno Zoo]
Flamingos welcome you
[Tama Zoo]
Showing wolves living in packs - How packs of Common Wolf are formed... Takeshi Kumagai
"Tokyo Medaka"
In search of the origin of medaka fish: investigating the lineage of Japanese medaka fish... Mitsuru Sakaizumi
[Inokashira Park Zoo]
Living underwater with air tanks and air chambers - rearing and exhibiting Water Spider...Hiroshi Arai
[Poetry and illustrations]
Koala...Poem by Ryo Kizaka, Illustration by Yoshifumi Hasegawa
[Talking about humans and animals]
Postwar zoo seen from the castle tower.... Naoyuki Kinoshita
[Tama Zoo]
Greater One-horned Rhinoceros' "relocation" - Three different migration strategies...Yasuo Yoshimura
Zoo Topics...From Overseas/Domestic/Tokyo
Library News from Akio Niizuma
[Ueno Zoo]
"Amphibians are disappearing!" - Special exhibition at Ueno Amphibian and Vivarium
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.
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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.