Tokyo Friends of the Zoo

Animals and Zoos
Winter 2020 issue (No.717)

We will introduce the progress of Serval breeding at Tama Zoo, in particular the birth and rearing of Yuri, who came to the park in 2014, as well as her recent status.
In addition, the magazine also features an article looking back at the progress of the "Second Zoo Stock Plan" formulated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, as well as introducing the 124 newly selected species.

[Cover] Serval breeding history
Cover description... Yuta Sasaki
[Tokyo Sea Life Park]
Diving into the waters of Eurasian Moorhen Island, Canada - Aiming to improve the exhibition tanks
...Naoaki Kawahara, Satoshi Matsumura, Ryosuke Komi
Readers' Photo Exhibition
The Second ZooStock Plan: A conservation plan with an eye to the future...Naoya Ohashi
Why is biodiversity important? ... Koichi Goka
[Ueno Zoo]
To make interpretation at Monkey Mountain more effective...Kohei Aoki
[Poetry and illustrations]
Chinese Pangolin...Poetry by Ryo Kizaka, Illustration by Yoshifumi Hasegawa
[Talking about humans and animals]
My position...Kobayashi Kazufumi
[From the zoo lecture]
Tadpoles change shape... Osamu Kishida
Zoo News from Tokyo / Japan / Overseas
Book Reviews Animal Books
[Tama Zoo]
First Koala in 8 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.