Tokyo Friends of the Zoo

Animals and Zoos
Spring 2011 issue (No.682)

Two Giant Panda have arrived at Ueno Zoo for the first time in three years.
We will introduce the breeding of Western Lowland Gorilla and Atlantic puffins, as well as the creatures that live in Tokyo Bay that can be observed from bottle watching.

[cover]
Tsushima Marten cover description for Inokashira Park Zoo...Maki Sasaki
[Ueno Zoo]
Two Giant Panda visit Ueno Zoo for the first time in three years!
[Ueno Zoo]
Western Lowland Gorilla breeding: "Komomo" lives with his parents in the group... by Ryo Imanishi
[Ueno Zoo]
Breeding Atlantic puffins: chicks leave nests from improved nest boxes... Ryoko Sakashita, Keiji Saito, and Hideo Kobe
Reader's Photo Exhibition
[Special animal keeper Guide]
Tama Zoo 's Insectarium...Takashi Fukaya and Ryohei Komatani
[Tokyo Sea Life Park]
Observing familiar creatures in Tokyo Bay - Creatures around the Aquarium and bottle watching...Masato Ikeda
A foul-smelling, unpalatable frog—the secretions of the Japanese brown frog help it avoid predation by striped snakes... by Yuri Yoshimura
[Poetry and illustrations]
Swallow... Poem by Ryo Kisaka, Illustration by Yoshifumi Hasegawa
[Talking about humans and animals]
How the landmark was created...Hidetaka Ichiyanagi
[From the zoo lecture]
Living in the North Pacific Ocean...Takatake Terasawa
Zoo Topics - From Overseas / From Japan / From Tokyo
[Ueno Zoo]
This is Sumatran Tiger "Indah"
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.