Tokyo Friends of the Zoo

Animals and Zoos
Summer 2013 issue (No.691)

The ideas and results of putting Giraffe training techniques learned in the United States into practice at Tama Zoo.
The article on Tokyo Butterfly Bitterling is about efforts to raise, breed, exhibit, and conserve it at Inokashira Park Zoo.
Western Lowland Gorilla.

[cover]
Tama Zoo Giraffe cover description... Shimizu Isao
[Special animal keeper Guide]
Oshima Park Zoo...Atsushi Hirota
[Tama Zoo]
Giraffe training: what I learned in America and how I put it into practice...Kaori Ito
[Inokashira Park Zoo]
Ex situ conservation of Tokyo Butterfly Bitterling fish...Masaaki Kodama
[Tokyo Sea Life Park]
Creating water movement in an aquarium...Hiroshi Sakurai
Readers' Photo Exhibition
Will Western Lowland Gorilla survive? - Report on the current status of wild Western Lowland Gorilla in the northeastern Republic of the Congo... by Tomoaki Nishihara
[Poetry and illustrations]
Polar Bear...Poetry by Ryo Kizaka, Illustration by Yoshifumi Hasegawa
[Talking about humans and animals]
From the sea of coral to the sea of seaweed...Kazuya Hirai
[From the zoo lecture]
Snakes protect themselves by eating toads.... Mori Satoshi
Zoo Topics - From Overseas / From Japan / From Tokyo
Book Reviews Animal Books
[Ueno Zoo]
The baby Western Lowland Gorilla is doing well!
others

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