Tokyo Friends of the Zoo

Animals and Zoos
Winter 2018 issue (No.709)

Ueno ZooではWestern Gorillaの赤ちゃんが誕生！
Tama Zooは馬とふれあう「家畜馬トークイベント」実施までの道のりを辿りました。
We will introduce the efforts being made by local authorities and aquariums to protect the endangered Common Murre, as well as the mysterious binturong, which is kept at Hirakawa Zoo in Kagoshima City.

[Cover] Tama Zoo of Common Wolf Cover Description ...... Hiruma Mami
［Ueno Zoo]
Western Gorilla The birth of a male baby
[Tama Zoo]
Masakazu Ikoma for the implementation of the livestock horse talk event: ......
Common Murre Efforts to protect the Common Murre protection and propagation project ...... Takenaka Yasunobu
［Tokyo Sea Life Park]
Breeding Common Murre at the aquarium
───Improvement of the breeding environment and contribution to in-habitat conservation ......Daiki Nojima
Readers' photo exhibition
Natural reproduction of Binturongs and growth of their young: ...... Yuichiro Matsumoto
［Special Guide to animal keeper]
Inokashira Park Zoo Japanese animals of ...... Mizuki Karasawa, Tomoaki Inoue, Shosei Mori, Izumi Tsuchiya
［From the Zoo Lecture Series.]
Asian Elephant What we can learn from the skeletal specimen of "Hanako" ......
［Poem and illustration]
Foxes...... Poem by Ryo Kisaka, Illustration by Yoshifumi Hasegawa
［Talking about Humans and Animals]
The most important animal in the zoo: ...... Kimio Honda
Topics in Zoos: From Tokyo / From Japan / From Abroad
Book Reviews Animal Books
［Ueno Zoo]
Shanshan" is now available!
etc.

"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.