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.

[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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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.