Tokyo Friends of the Zoo

Animals and Zoos
Winter 2017 issue (No.705)

The cover features a chicken, in reference to the zodiac animal for 2017, the bird.
In the first part of this article, we will introduce some tips for feeding slow lorises. How can gum arabic be used?
The main article covers the efforts of Tokyo Sea Life Park to breed Little Penguin, and the struggles animal keeper at Aquamarine Fukushima, who aim to exhibit plants, fish, and otters in coexistence.

[cover]
Chicken (Ohiki) Cover description... Kaori Torikai [Ueno Zoo]
Tips for feeding slow lorises
[Tokyo Sea Life Park]
Taking on new breeding techniques for Little Penguin
--Save the world's smallest penguin! ...Tatsuya Yamamoto
Readers' Photo Exhibition
[Tama Zoo]
The pregnancy progress of Asian Elephant "Utai"...Shohei Yamaguchi
[Special animal keeper Guide]
Ueno Zoo 's feed room...Sachiko Suzuki, Chiyoji Sasaki, and Shuo Nose
[Aquamarine Fukushima]
Creating an "Otter Waterside"...Chiho Nakamura
[Poetry and illustrations]
Toridoshi...Poetry by Kizaka Ryo Illustration by Hasegawa Yoshifumi
[Talking about humans and animals]
The fun of interacting with animals... Edoya Koneko
[Zoo Trivia Exploration ⑦]
Aquarium equipment, then and now... Satoshi Tada
Zoo News: From Tokyo, Japan, and Overseas
Book Reviews Animal Books
[Ueno Zoo]
Asian Elephant elephant Asher gives birth to second calf
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.