Tokyo Friends of the Zoo

Animals and Zoos
Summer 2012 issue (No.687)

We will introduce a variety of initiatives, including the history of insect breeding, records of training two-spotted crickets that make use of their learning ability to learn tricks (!), the artificial hatching of Svalbard Rock Ptarmigan, and the breeding and display of icefish that live in the Antarctic Ocean.

[cover]
Tama Zoo 's Migratory Locust Cover Description...Yosuke Tanaka
[Tama Zoo]
50 years of insect breeding
[Tama Zoo]
The Beginning of Insect Training: Teaching the Learning Behavior of Two-Spotted Crickets through Training...Kunie Tabata
[Ueno Zoo]
Artificial incubation and rearing of Svalbard Rock Ptarmigan...Yukihiro Takahashi, Junko Ishii, and Miyuki Maeda
Readers' Photo Exhibition
White Blood Fish - Icefish...Tetsuo Iwami
[Tokyo Sea Life Park]
Collection and exhibition of icefish...Naoaki Kawahara and Koji Nakamura
[Special animal keeper Guide]
"Salt Pool" tank at Tokyo Sea Life Park...Kanbara Isao
[My Observations and Records]
Research on frogs and flies...Eisuke Sato
[Poetry and illustrations]
Snail...Kisaka Ryo, illustration by Hasegawa Yoshifumi
[Talking about humans and animals]
Tama Zoo and Me...Masaru Saito
[From the zoo lecture]
The true identity of the imaginary animal, the dragon... Tsutomu Hikita
Zoo Topics - From Overseas / From Japan / From Tokyo
First Crested Ibis born in the wild in 36 years
others

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