Tokyo Friends of the Zoo

Animals and Zoos
Summer 2010 issue (No.679)

The cover features Momoko and Komomo, a mother and child Western Lowland Gorilla at Ueno Zoo.
He is now 6 months old.
The main text focuses on how the gorilla lived with other gorillas.
What is the difference between a legless lizard and a snake? We will also introduce a report from Yokohama City Nogeyama Zoo, which was the first in Japan to successfully breed Radiated Tortoise.

[cover]
Cover description of Ueno Ueno Zoo 's Western Lowland Gorilla...Ryo Imanishi
[Ueno Zoo]
Komomo and Momoko are now 6 months old
[Inokashira Park Zoo]
The Mystery of Little Grebe Reproductive Behavior: Exploring "Programmed Behavior" by Hiroshi Arai
[Yokohama City Nogeyama Zoo]
Breeding Radiated Tortoise: Japan's First Successful Breeding... by Daisuke Kiryu
Readers' Photo Exhibition
[Special animal keeper Guide]
Tama Zoo 's Otter House and Walk-in Bird Cage...Naoya Ohashi and Izumi Tsuchiya
Which came first, snakes or lizards? --Degeneration of the legs of squamates...Shuichi Sakata
[Ueno Zoo Vivarium]
Amphibian and Reptile Guide: Legs
[Poetry and illustrations]
Gecko...Poem by Kizaka Ryo, Illustration by Hasegawa Yoshifumi
[Talking about humans and animals]
It's not natural, but... Shoichi Sengoku
[Ueno Zoo]
We "delivered" the Children's Zoo... Akira Takafuji
Zoo Topics - From Overseas / From Japan / From Tokyo
Library News from Akio Niizuma
[Ueno Zoo]
Malayan sun bear "Umekichi" is growing... Mizuho Noda
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.