Tokyo Friends of the Zoo

Animals and Zoos
Summer 2025 issue (No.739)

In 2024, two Giraffe from Tama Zoo departed for Indonesia.
In this issue, we bring you a behind-the-scenes look at this massive migration through a report from the zookeepers.

We will also introduce the efforts made by Hitachi City Kamine Zoo to successfully measure the weight of Hippopotamus, as well as Koala conservation activities promoted by the WWF in Australia.

Furthermore, in the essay corner "Humans Talk About Animals," we received a contribution from Masaaki Hirai of the comedy duo "Dansei Buranko."

cover

・Named triggerfish at Tokyo Sea Life Park

article

・[Tama Zoo] Behind the Scenes of Airlifting Giraffe to Indonesia...Isao Shimizu
・[Hitachi City Kamine Zoo] Weighing Hippopotamus ──Application of Target Training……Akira Arikawa
・Walking around the aquarium at night
・[WWF Japan] Revive Koala Forest...Yosuke Amano

Talking about humans and animals

・The Vortex of Wonder Zania...Masaaki Hirai (Male Swing)

Other

・Readers' photo exhibition
・Get up close and personal with Amami-oshima Island Spiny Rat 's "thorns"!
・Zoo topics from Tokyo/Japan/Overseas
・Book Reviews Animal Books
・ Pygmy Hippopotamus was born Ueno Zoo
・Poetry and illustrations...Poetry: Ryo Kizaka Illustrations: Yoshifumi Hasegawa
・Table of contents illustrations.... Ikeda Manabu
・Hand-drawn letters and illustrations...Isao Makino
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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