Tokyo Friends of the Zoo

Animals and Zoos
Fall 2008 issue (No.672)

The cover features Tsushima Leopard Cat at Inokashira Park Zoo.
We will also introduce Snow Leopard breeding, the raising of three native horses - the Tokara horse, the Kiso horse, and the Noma horse - and efforts to conserve the Nagoya Daruma Pond Frog at Hiroshima City's Asa Zoo.

[cover]
Cover description of Tsushima Leopard Cat wildcat at Inokashira Park Zoo...Shinichi Sasaki
From Tokyo [Special Edition]
[Tama Zoo]
Snow Leopard breeding: from mating to birth... Aiko Fukuda, Satomi Takamura, Hiroki Nagata, and Hidetoshi Kurotori
Readers' Photo Exhibition
[Ueno Zoo]
Raising native Japanese horses - "living cultural assets" at the children's zoo...Mayumi Hashikawa
[Asa Zoological Park, Hiroshima City]
Ex situ conservation of the Nagoya Daruma Pond Frog: From zoos to new habitats...Shinichiro Chamura, Hitoshi Watanabe, and Ayako Noda
[Tama Zoo]
Borneo Kinabatangan River Fire Hose Project: Fire hose suspension bridge saves wild orangutans from predicament... Hidetoshi Kurotori
[Poetry and illustrations]
Shrike...Poem by Kizaka Ryo, Illustration by Hasegawa Yoshifumi
[Talking about humans and animals]
From a dating spot to an educational venue...Katsufumi Sato
[Ueno Zoo]
There's a baby boom in Small Mammal House!
Zoo Topics...From Overseas/Domestic/Tokyo
Library News from Akio Niizuma
[Cover Animal Photo Gallery]
Tsushima Leopard Cat Inokashira Park Zoo
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.