Tokyo Friends of the Zoo

Animals and Zoos
Winter 2009 issue (No.673)

The cover Water Buffalo at Tama Zoo.
The winter issue includes articles related to the 2009 zodiac animal, the ox, such as "Three Topics Related to Cows" and the Kuchinoshima cows that visited Ueno Zoo.
We will also be bringing you a wealth of other content, including breeding efforts at the zoo and records of kangaroo observations by elementary school students.

[cover]
Tama Zoo 's Water Buffalo cover description...Keigo Yasaka
[Tokyo Friends of the Zoo]
From "America's Aquarium and Zoo Tour"
[Ueno Zoo]
Training in artificial breeding techniques for Rock Ptarmigan- A training camp in Tromso, Norway...Yukihiro Takahashi and Hidemasa Hori
[Tama Zoo]
Breeding rails: Taking on the challenge of breeding a bird whose ecology is poorly understood...Hirose Itaru, Sugita Heizo, and Takahashi Yukihiro
Readers' Photo Exhibition
[My Observations and Records]
Observing Red Kangaroo at Tama Zoo...Tatsuya Yoshida
Where did Masked Palm Civet come from? Genetic variation of Masked Palm Civet...Ryuichi Masuda
[Ueno Zoo]
Kuchinoshima beef arrives at the park
Three topics related to cows: their bodily functions and their relationship with humans...Yoichi Shoda
[Poetry and illustrations]
African Water Buffalo...Poetry by Ryo Kizaka, Illustration by Yoshifumi Hasegawa
[Talking about humans and animals]
Each Zoo...Takayuki Maekawa
[Ueno Zoo]
New classification and conservation regulations for slow lorises....Taketo Nakamura
Zoo Topics...From Overseas/Domestic/Tokyo
Library News from Akio Niizuma
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.