Tokyo Friends of the Zoo

Animals and Zoos
Fall 2011 issue (No.684)

This special issue focuses on Ogasawara, which has been selected for World Heritage registration.
We will introduce the zoo's conservation efforts, the Ogasawara aquarium's tank, and the latest findings on Ogasawara's animals from various angles.

[cover]
Tokyo Sea Life Park Aquarium Cover Description... Namiko Tomura
Animals that live in the Ogasawara Islands... Kazuo Horikoshi
[Ueno Zoo]
Rearing Red-headed Wood Pigeon...Hideo Kamikado and Ryoko Sakashita
[Tama Zoo] ...Conserving the Ogasawara Hairstreak Butterfly - Rearing Efforts at Tama Zoo Insectarium...Tomoko Fujii and Akemi Ishijima
Readers' Photo Exhibition
[Special animal keeper Guide]
Ogasawara's tank at Tokyo Sea Life Park...Shozo Ogiso
Where do the Japanese white-eye come from and where are they going? ──The evolution and ecology of a surviving endemic species...Kazuto Kawakami
Great diversity on a small island: Land snails of the Ogasawara Islands...by Satoshi Chiba
[Overseas training report]
Learning at the German Otter Center: Conservation and Public Awareness-raising in Zoos...Naoya Ohashi
[Poetry and illustrations]
Leaf beetle...Poetry by Ryo Kizaka, Illustration by Yoshifumi Hasegawa
[Talking about humans and animals]
My beloved orangutan... Mariko Hata
[From the zoo lecture]
The 5W1H of Japanese River Otter Conservation...Genichi Ando
Zoo Topics - From Overseas / From Japan / From Tokyo
[Ueno Zoo] The baby Aardvark is doing well!
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.