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

"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.