Tokyo Friends of the Zoo

Animals and Zoos
Summer 2024 issue (No.735)

The cover features Tasmanian Devil that visited Tama Zoo in February 2024.
In this article, we will introduce a new initiative at Tokyo Sea Life Park to collect "plankton" and an initiative to feed bamboo shoots harvested at Tama Zoo to Giant Panda in Ueno.

Yusuke Koshizuka, an employee of Adachi Ward Biological Park, shared with us the efforts that led to the successful captive breeding of the rare insect, the long-horned beetle, which is at risk of extinction.

We will also be covering a variety of topics, including the contents of a "Crested Ibis Roundtable Discussion" in which former zoo staff members who have been involved for many years in the conservation of the Crested Ibis Crested Ibis, another endangered species, talk about the hardships and thoughts they faced at the time, which could be considered the behind-the-scenes story of crested ibis conservation.

[Cover] Tasmanian Devil at Tama Zoo
Cover description: Noriko Nagata
[Tama Zoo]
Tasmanian Devil are coming!
[Tokyo Sea Life Park]
Aiming for "sustainable collection and exhibition"
Collection using light traps and transport of planktonic organisms
... Yusuke Ogawa, Tomoyoshi Ota, Shota Haba
Roundtable discussion: Talking about Crested Ibis...Teruyuki Komiya, Etsuo Narushima, and Heizo Sugita
Reader's Photo Exhibition
[Adachi Ward Biological Park]
Connecting generations of the longhorn beetle *Hydrophilus auriculatus*
Ex situ conservation efforts...Yusuke Koshizuka
[Tama Zoo]
Tama's Bamboo Shoot Mission...Ayaka Okano
[Poetry and illustrations]
Worker Ants... Poem by Ryo Kisaka, Illustration by Yoshifumi Hasegawa
[Talking about humans and animals]
Squid as a living creature...Michael Sano
[From the zoo lecture]
What I learned from observing swallows raising their young...
Zoo news from Tokyo / from within Japan / from overseas
Book Reviews Animal Books
[Ueno Zoo]
Twin pandas to be kept alone

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.
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