Tokyo Friends of the Zoo

Animals and Zoos
Summer 2008 issue (No.671)

We will introduce the improvements being made to environmental enrichment for Polar Bear bears and efforts to raise Aye-aye at Duke University's Lemur Center.
Investigating the unknown ecology of Raccoon Dog living in the forests surrounding the Imperial Palace.

上野動物園のオオサンショウウオ
上野動物園のオオサンショウウオ

[cover]
Ueno Zoo 's Japanese Giant Salamander Cover Description...Yusuke Saito
Tama Zoo 's new facility "Asian Swamp"
[Tama Zoo]
First Cheetah cub in 16 years
[Ueno Zoo]
Environmental enrichment for Polar Bear: Improving the breeding environment with automatic feeders and other devices... Waka Otsu
Visiting the Duke University Lemur Center: The future of Aye-aye breeding...Takahisa Hosoda
[Tama Zoo]
Even cockroaches are welcome! Ingenious ways to display insects
Raccoon Dog living in the forests of the Imperial Palace: their ecology revealed through research... Takako Sako
A "nice story" about Sika Deer and Japanese Macaque...Yamato Tsuji
Readers' Photo Exhibition
[Ueno Zoo]
Presenting "Ringling" [Ryōryō]... Hiroshi Kuramochi
[Poetry and illustrations]
Thank you...Poem by Ryo Kizaka, Illustration by Yoshifumi Hasegawa
[Talking about humans and animals]
Yama-chan the mountain slug...Kimiko Hashimoto
International Workshop on Red-headed Wood Pigeon...Yasumasa Tomita
Zoo Topics...From Overseas/Domestic/Tokyo
Library News from Akio Niizuma
[Tama Zoo]
There are now seven Crested Ibis chicks
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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*If you are applying by print

:Tokyo Zoological Park Society (Public Interest Foundation) 9-83 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0007
Animals and Zoos Editorial Department, "Readers' Photo Exhibition" Section

*For inquiries regarding submissions, please contact

:編集部まで。
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