Tokyo Friends of the Zoo

Animals and Zoos
Fall 2013 issue (No.692)

The cover features guinea pigs from Inokashira Park Zoo Zoo.
The main text includes articles on Ueno Zoo, which has succeeded in breeding gorillas through group breeding, Tama Zoo Inokashira Park Zoo, which is engaged in educational outreach activities through guinea pigs, as well as articles on the current situation and conservation of wild Przewalski's Horse 's horses, and animal graves and memorial monuments based on Japan's unique view of animals.

[cover]
Guinea pigs (Domestic Guinea Pig) from Inokashira Park Zoo Cover description...Saori Furukawa
[Tokyo Sea Life Park]
Storks and Red-crowned Crane appear in "Nature by the Water"!
[Ueno Zoo]
Letting gorillas be gorillas: Managing Western Lowland Gorilla as a group...Shinichi Kioka
[Inokashira Park Zoo]
Welcome to the world of guinea pigs: Educational outreach activities and the health management techniques that support them... Saori Furukawa
Reader's Photo Exhibition
[Special animal keeper Guide]
Tama Zoo 's Asian Plains... Masakazu Ikoma and Mariko Saito
A veterinarian's look at Mongolia: capturing and relocating wild horses Przewalski's Horse horses)... by Tsuyoshi Sanekata
[Poetry and illustrations]
Bell cricket...Poem by Kizaka Ryo, Illustration by Hasegawa Yoshifumi
[Talking about humans and animals]
Spawning behavior of bitterlings...Akira Sakata
[From the zoo lecture]
Japanese View of Animals as Seen through Animal Graves and Memorials...Kentaro Yoda
Zoo Topics - From Overseas / From Japan / From Tokyo
Book Reviews Animal Books
[Ueno Zoo]
Baby giant anteater is thriving
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.