Visit to Tokyo

aardvark250 said:
I will start my trip from 17-21 August.This is a family trip(I'm not old enough to go.I'm just 13) so I can't go to many zoo.2 zoo and 2 aquarium is my choice. Ueno Zoo,Tama Zoo,Yokohama sea paradise and Kamogawa sea world.Lots of highlights such as aardvarks,aye aye,tasmanian devil,commerson's dolphin,whale shark,flying fish is coming!

I will write a detailed review and species list after my visit.
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Also don't forget to take interesting photos and then post them here to see how zoo enclosures in Japan are looking!
 
I visit Yokohama sea paradise this day.See some very good species such as isopod and Commerson dolphin,and a whale shark when watching the show!I'm sorry that no species list because I am not familiar with fish and I can't see all fishes but I will try to list special species.
 
Today I visit tama zoo.Tama zoo is awesome and I see three of the four highlight,the Tasmanian devils,large insectarium,and the tunnel mole and shrew house.I didn't see them using the tunnel because I'm late,but I did see them digging.i just miss the king cheetah.Species list and a detailed review will be post after I back home.
 
Today I went to kamogawa sea world,a and see the world only captive flying fish.Also in the highlights are ocean sunfish,orca(in a very small tank) and a walrus with very long tusk.Also,they have five species if cetacean and like eight species of pinniped
 
Thanks for posting these little updates aardvark! I'm looking forward to the full reports! Just a couple of quick questions about Sea Paradise:
Where did you see the Commerson's dolphins? (perhaps they were Pacific white-sided dolphins?)
Did you see the tiger shark?

Have a pleasant journey home!
 
They are commerson dolphin and I see them in the cylinder tank(I think they hold sunfish before?)in the 'dolphin fantasy'.Where do you see the tiger shark?I think I miss it.Also,the goblin shark you see is dead after like 17days
 
Anyway,today I visit my final destination.Ueno zoo.This zoo is full of animals I never see before,like aye-aye,dourocoli,pangolin and of course,aardvark.This zoo is sad though,with little space for the animals.I also miss the Japanese bird section and the bear section because I time is limited.
 
aardvark250 said:
They are commerson dolphin and I see them in the cylinder tank(I think they hold sunfish before?)in the 'dolphin fantasy'.Where do you see the tiger shark?I think I miss it.Also,the goblin shark you see is dead after like 17days
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Fantastic - I guess they're new then. Not the best exhibit for them though; how many were displayed? I think that might be the tank which previously held sunfish but when I visited it hosted an assortment of sharks, rays and thin shoals of fish.

Apparently my goblin shark was dead within four days. I struggle to believe even that given how close to death it looked when I saw it (within an hour of going on display).

The tiger shark was in the huge shark aquarium tank on the third floor (next biggest sharks in there were hammerheads). It would be a great shame if it didn't survive.
 
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Yes,the commerson dolphin were in at June.there are 1.1of them.And I saw the tiger shark in the aquarium.
 
Actually no tiger shark.What I think I saw is a sand tiger shark(Just found out they are two different thing)
 
Yokohama sea paradise species list
*Note that this is not a full species list.
Entering the aqua museum
Yellow tang (Zebrasoma flavescens)
Zone 1:Animals that returned to the sea[/COLOR]
[URL="http://www.zoochat.com/1656/rockhopper-penguin-exhibit-459092/"]Southern rockhopper penguin(Eudyptes chrysocome)
Grey seal (Halichoerus grypus)
Sea otter (Enhydra lutris)

Zone 2:Popular arctic sea creature
Polar bear(Ursus maritimus)
Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)
King penguin(Aptenodytes patagonicus)
Gentoo penguin(Pygoscelis papua)
Magellanic penguin(Spheniscus magellanicus)
Adelie penguin(Pygoscelis adeliae)

Zone 3:A cloud of fish swimming in schools
Sand tiger shark(Carcharias taurus)
Japanese butterfly ray(Gymnura japonica)
Japanese eagle ray(Myliobatis tobijei )
Japanese pilchard (Sardinops sagax melanostictus)
Pitted stingray(Dasyatis matsubarai)

Zone 4 :The world of sea life
Japanese spider crab(Macrocheira kaempferi)
Japanese sea nettle(Chrysaora melanaster)
Whitespotted conger(Conger myriaster)
Longspine black urchin(Diadema setosum)
Urchin clingfish(Diademichthys lineatus)
Spotfin jawfish(Opistognathus robinsi)
Balloon lumpfish(Eumicrotremus pacificus)
Purple flying gurnard(Dactyloptena orientalis)
Common octopus(Octopus vulgaris)
Golden cuttlefish(Sepia esculenta)
Flamboyant cuttlefish(Metasepia pfefferi)
Japanese angelshark(Squatina japonica)
Japanese wobbegong(Orectolobus japonicus)

Zone 5:Beautiful "Flowers of the sea"
Pitted stonefish(Erosa erosa)
Warty frogfish(Antennarius maculatus)
Painted frogfish(Antennarius pictus)
Devil stinger(Inimicus japonicus)
Spotted garden eel(Heteroconger hassi)
Orange-barred garden eel(Gorgasia preclara)
Electric eel(Electrophorus electricus)
Archerfish(Toxotes)
Shrimpfish(Aeoliscus strigatus)
Ribbon eel(Rhinomuraena quaesita)
Unknown sea cucumber(Synapta maculata??)
Unknown knifefish?
Giant isopod(Bathynomus)

Zone 6:Origin of the Sea/River Life
Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)
Zebra shark(Stegostoma fasciatum)
Horn-nosed boxfish(Ostracion rhinorhynchos)
Alligator gar(Atractosteus spatula)
Spotted gar(Lepisosteus oculatus)
Longnose gar(Lepisosteus osseus)
Capybara(Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)
Ruddy shelduck(Tadorna ferruginea)
Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
Red bellied piranha (Pygocentrus nattereri)
Giant catfish(Pangasianodon gigas)
Red tailed catfish(Phractocephalus hemioliopterus)
Indian star tortoise(Geochelone elegans)

Zone 7: Deep-seatrium
Inshore hagfish(Eptatretus burgeri)
Manetail snake eel(Ophichthus urolophus)
Chambered nautilus(Nautilus pompilius)
Giant isopod(Bathynomus giganteus)
Oriental crocodilefish(Peristedion orientale)
Rough snailfish(Careproctus trachysoma)
Botan shrimp(Pandalus nipponensis)
Spider crab(Pugettia kagoshimensis)
Japanese short-nose spurdog(Squalus brevirostris)
(Paramola japonica)

Marine mammal show
Beluga whale(Delphinapterus leucas)
Walrus(Odobenus rosmarus)
Bottlenose dolphin(Tursiops truncatus)
Pacific white sided dolphin(Lagenorhynchus obliquidens)
False killer whale(Pseudorca crassidens)
Magellanic penguin( Spheniscus magellanicus)
California sea lion(Zalophus californianus)
Whale shark(Rhincodon typus)

Dolphin fantasy
Commerson's dolphin(Cephalorhynchus commersonii)
Bottlenose dolphin(Tursiops truncatus)

Fureal lagoon
Short-finned pilot whale(Globicephala macrorhynchus)
beluga whale(Delphinapterus leucas)
bottlenose dolphin(Tursiops truncatus)
african penguin(Spheniscus demersus)
walrus(Odobenus rosmarus)
spotted seal (Phoca largha)
California sea lion(Zalophus californianus)
 
Tama Zoo species list
*Not all species I saw,but all species the zoo list

MAMMALS
Gray wolf
Przewalski's wild horse
Domestic horse
Chamois
Golden takin
Styan's red panda
Snow leopard
Pere david's deer
Japanese serow
Orangutan
Whit-handed gibbon
Amur tiger
Masked palm civet
Asian elephant
Mouflon
Himalayan tahr
Whit fronted wallaby
Wallaroo
Tasmanian devil
Sugar glider
Common brush tail possum
Woylie
Koala
Red kangaroo
Reindeer
Indian rhino
Raccoon dog
Chimpanzee
Reticulated giraffe
Scimitar-horned oryx
Grevy's zebra
African elephant
Cheetah
Serval
African lion
Japanese macaque
Japanese giant flying squirrel
Scarlet macaw
Blue and yellow macaw
Eurasian badger
Oriental short clawed otter
Ezo least shrew
Japanese mole
Long clawed shrew
Japanese pipistrelle
Small japanese field mouse
Large japanese field mouse
Smith's red-backed vole
Harvest mouse
Japanese weasel
Japanese hare
Guinea pig
Goat
Malayan tapir
Japanese sika deer
Japanese wild boar


BIRDS
Oriental white stork
Emu
Bar headed goose
Golden eagle
Common kestrel
White tail sea eagle
Snowu owl
Barn owl
Ural owl
Scope owl
Short ear owl
Magpie goose
Tawny frogmouth
Turkey vulture
Bateleur
Stellar sea eagle
Red crown crane
White napped crane
Black stork
Cape teal
Red billed pintail
Pelican
Ostrich
Flamingo
Chukar partridge
Himalayan monal
Palawan peacock pheasant
Edward's pheasant
Siberian white crane
Little grebe
Common shelduck
Black-faced spoonbill
Black-headed ibis
Spot-billed duck
Lapwing
Oriental reed walbler
Ruff
Black-tailed godwit
Dunlin
Common kingfisher
Pied avocet
Cattle egret
Mandarain duck
Indian peafowl
Black stork
Black-necked crane
Oriental white stork
Siberian white crane
Red crown crane
Purple heron


Reptiles
Takydromus dorsalis
Scincella boettgeri
Burrowing ratsnake
Japanese ratsnake


Invertebrates(I'm being lazy so this is not full species list,but rather 80-90%)

Giant water bug
Diving beetle
Leaf cutter ant
Orchid mantis
White spotted giant reduviid bug
Meal worm
Hercules beetle
Flower beetle
Bell crickets
Two spotted cricket
Megacrania alpheus
Pachyrhynchus infernalis
Phaulula daitoensis
Riukiaria sp.
Liocheles australasiae
typopeltis crucifer
Dolomedes yawatai
Citrus swallowtail
Tree nymph
Great orange tip
Blue glassy tiger
Large mantis
Migratory locust
Ishigaki forest grasshopper
Rice grasshopper
Sipyloidea sipylus
Lots of species of butterfly that I don't know
Mexican leg fire
Emperor scorpion
Longlegged centipede
Kamado cricket
Conocephalus japonicus
Meadow Katydid
Rice cone-headed katydid
Sesuji-tsuyumushi katydid
Taiwan great katydid
Ant lion
Greenhouse camel cricket
Panesthia angustipennis spadica
Japanese rhinoceros beetle
Burrower bug
Anotogaster sieboldii
Pyrocoelia atripennis


Amphibians

Japanese fire-bellied newt
Montane brown frog
Mountain brown frog

Fish

Japanese crucian carp
Tamoroko
Japanese barbel
Japanese dace
Pale chub
 
About ueno zoo ,my parents only give me three hours to visit because they said,"Everybody said three hours is enough".They don't know that zoochatters is different from others,seriously,with aardvarks,armadillos,pangolin,ayeaye,fossa,echidna,slow loris,tarsier,shoebill,okapi,maned wolf....three hours is definitely not enough.Anyway,I have enough time to go to west garden and a little part of east garden.Fine.
 
Ueno Zoo species list
*I just list where I went because I have not visit the whole zoo
*Not what animals I see,but what the sign list

Eastern gray kangaroo
Red river hog
Maned wolf
Stellar's sea eagle
Aardvark

Cotton top tamarin
Small japanese field mouse
Large japanese field mouse
Common marmoset
Prevost's squirrel
Japanese vole
Striped grass mouse
Cairo spiny mouse
Pale jerbil
Fat tailed jerbil
Japanese dormouse
Woodland dormouse
Naked mole rat
Dwarf mongoose
Meerkat
Pallas's cat
Asian particoloured bat
House musk shrew
Southern three-banded armadillo
Ryukyu flying fox
North american porcupine
Night monkey
Six-banded armadillo
Japanese giant flying squirrel
Japanese dwarf flying squirrel
Chinchilla
Short-beak echidna
Kinkajou
Brush tail rat kangaroo
Seba's short tail bat
Four toed hedgehog
Harvest mouse
Pygmy's slow loris
Spectral tarsier
Lesser bushbabies
Jackass penguin
Greater flamingo

Hartmann's mountain zebra
Barbary sheep
Pygmy hippo
Hippo
Eastern black rhino
Okapi
Shoebill
Reticulated giraffe

Ring tail lemur
Black and white ruffed lemur
Fossa
Madagascar crested ibis
Aye-aye
Lesser hedgehog tenrec
Madagascar hissing cockroach
Grey gentle lemur
Greater hedgehog tenrec
Radiated tortoise

Japanese giant salamander
Saltwater crocodile
Australian lungfish
West african mud turtle
Northern caiman lizard
Chinese crocodile lizard
West african dwarf crocodile
Fly river turtle
Asian arowana
North australian snake necked turtle
Yellow head monitor
Rococo toad
False tomato frog
Green tree frog
Bell's horned frog
Oriental fire bellied frog
Budgett's frog
Mossy bug eyed frog
Long-nosed horned frog
Golden mantella
Dyeing poison frog
Spanish ribbed newt
Mexico salamander
Greater siren
Three toed amphiuma
Malayan gharial
Sri lanka black turtle
Malayan box turtle
Emerald tree boa
Galapagos tortoise
Leaf nosed snake
Leopard gecko
Gila monster
Beaded lizard
Madagascar day gecko
Tokay gecko
California kingsnake
Corn snake
European glass lizard
Tropical girdled lizard
South american red footed tortoise
South american yellow footed tortoise
Green iguana
Green anaconda
Central beaded dragon
Prehensile tailed skink
Pacific boa
Tokyo salamander
Tohoku salamander
Japanese black salamander
Japanese clawed salamander
Tokyo daruma pond frog
Japanese fire-bellied newt
Wrinkled frog
Japanese brown frog
Montane brown frog
Kajika frog
Forest green tree frog
Eastern japanese common toad
Schlegel's green tree frog
Japanese tree frog
Japanese mamushi
Burrowing ratsnake
Japanese keelback
Japanese four-lined snake
Japanese ratsnake
Eastern japanese five-lined skink
Japanese gecko
Japanese grass lizard
American bull frog
Chinese softshell turtle
Japanese pond turtle
Reeve's pond turtle
Okinawa tree lizard
Yellow margined box turtle

Red panda

Polar bear
Snowy owl
Common seal
Svalbard rock ptarmigan
California sea lion

Emu

Japanese macaque

Wattled crane
Hamerkop
Southern screamer
Secretary bird
Waltrop ibis
Black neck crane

Lesser mouse deer
Chinese pangolin
Leopard cat
Leschenault rosette

Great blue turaco
Indian scope owl
Brown hawk owl
Toco toucan
Japanese quail
Citron created cockatoos
Southern tamandua
White spoonbill
Blacksmith plover
Ruddy kingfisher
Ruff
Common kingfisher
Palaearctic oystercatcher
Egyptian plover
Striated heron
Bald ibis
Brown headed thrush
Great slaty woodpecker
Violet-backed starling
Guinea turaco
Greater blue-eared glossy starling
Bearded barbet
Spur-winged plover
Violet turaco
Elegant crested tinamou
Golden breasted starling
Bali mynah
Blue-throated piping guan
Crested wood partridge
Red throated parrot finch
Common waxbill
Blue and white flycatcher
Long tailed paradise whydah
Nicobar pigeon
Zebra finch
Double-barred finch
Star finch
Triton cockatoo

Asiatic lion
Sumatran tiger
White handed gibbon
Western lowland gorilla
Edward's pheasant
 
Yokohama hakkeijima sea paradise is a big attraction although their mammals’ exhibit is fairly small. There are a lot of creature that are new for me. As a result, I spend a full five hours in the aquarium.

Yokohama hakkeijima sea paradise is divided into four parts, Aqua museum, Dolphin Fantasy, Umi Farm, and Fureal Lagoon. As the time is not enough, I didn’t visit Umi Farm because there seems like not have animal exhibit. Just fishing and taking a boat ride. (Am I wrong,devilfish?)

First building was the”Aqua museum” with eight different zones. After passing the Welcoming pool with yellow tang and orange spotted goby digging sand, we entered the first zone, Animals that returned to the sea. Three exhibits are here for southern rockhopper penguin, gray seal, and sea otter. The mammals’ exhibit is on the small side but they are very active because it is feeding time. I see the sea otter holding a fish in his hand and then eat it.

Next zone is call Popular arctic sea creatures with polar bear, walruses, and penguins (They geography is very well).As usual, their mammals’ exhibit is on the small side too. The penguin exhibit is housing king, Gentoo, magellanic, and adelie and their exhibit is OK.

The third zone, A cloud of fish swimming in schools, is a large tank which holds a bunch of Japanese sardine (at least thousands of them),sand tiger shark, and some types of ray. There is then an escalator tube that goes through the exhibit and takes us to the third floor.

The fourth zone, the world of sea life started with a pool with crabs and mudskipper. After the Japanese spider crab tank, lots of jellyfish tanks was on the wall. Also on the wall, is lots of species that can be seen in the species list. Also there is a tank with red light holding moray eel. I miss the shark tank is also probably in here(jealous at devilfish).

Then we enter the fifth zone, beautiful flowers of the sea. ”Nemo” and “Dory” are in here too. But for me, the highlights here are the stonefish and frogfish. In here, you can also look down to the mammals’ exhibit. As we walk towards the sunlight, a bunch of tank where the sign said weird fish. The electric eel tank is barren, a tank with nothing except an electric eel and water. Also there is archer fish, razorfish, and other weird fishy, one is still unidentified.

Sunlight is here when we enter the sixth zone, named the seashore, river and marsh creatures. First tank is a clear tank that house green sea turtle and a bunch of fish. Then I exit the zone to see the show and the deep sea creature. The show is impressive, with beluga, pacific white side dolphin, bottlenose dolphin, walrus, false killer whale, California sea lion, magellanic penguin. Also swimming in the show tank is the main highlights, the whale shark. It is swimming anti clockwise near the surface.

After the show, I went to seventh zone to see some deep sea creature. No goblin shark nor frilled shark ( but a model of them) I did see my first giant isopod. Also lots of deep sea creature on my species list. The exhibit is very cold that I need to wipe the glass to see them.
Returning to the sixth zone, is a fairly tropical area holding river animals. Piranha, catfish and capybara are here. Then we exit the Aqua museum and went to the Fureal lagoon.

Fureal lagoon is a place that you can get very close to the animals. Three tank holding beluga, short finned pilot whale, and bottlenose dolphin is the first we can touch. Sadly the animals didn’t swim close enough to touch but a touch one before so it is OK. The enclosure is small, though. Then we entered the friendly circle, which keeper will take an animals out(either sea lion or penguin) and we can touch them. This time was a penguin that is with feather. I touch it and it was featherish. Then is the flapper beach where you can see( but not touch) walrus, sea lion, spotted seal, and cape penguin. There is also a breathing hole type of thing that the seal swim up. At last is a place where you can touch sea star and sea cucumber.

Seeing time is not enough, I skipped the Umi farm and go to Dolphin fantasy .Only two exhibit is there, one for bottlenose dolphin and one for commerson’s dolphin. The bottlenose dolphin tank is an arch-shaped pool that is a bit small for them. The commerson’s dolphin tank is a cylindrical tank that holds sunfish before. ( Commerson’s dolphin is rare in captivity, and only four aquarium have them, three are in Japan and these black and white dolphin are the panda of the sea)

So that’s it, I go there in three o clock and leave at eight o clock. In conclusion, Yokohama hakkeijima sea paradise is a great aquarium, but the mammals enclosure there are a bit small.
 
Tama Zoo review part 1

This review will be take into four or more parts.


Sorry my last review being so bad. This review will be better.

My next attraction is Tama Zoo. CGSwan did a great job on this zoo so check out his/her review.

Tama Zoo is located on the countryside of Tokyo, with one and a half hour train from Tokyo center. I have read about this zoo, and thought that it will be very good. I even put it number one in Asian zoo in term of quality and quantity combined. (That’s why I don’t put zoorasia that high).

Anyway, here is where it starts. After grabbing the zoo map (you guys can grab here to follow my review, although the map is not new and something changes), I took the bus up to the hill and when I go down the bus, I arrive at the przewalski’s horse exhibit. This exhibit is a bit small for like 10 horses, but not too small that they don’t have space to run around. Also, the sign also said lots about they are once extinct in the wild then introduced, and the conservation effect. It is quite nice. The next exhibit is for two domestic horses which are mainly for riding. After that and some Mongolia houses, we reached the gray wolf exhibit. This exhibit is very good, with lots of foliage for them to hide, a big water pool, and you can see the horses on the other side. It is also quite large for three wolves (I don’t know if there are more) When the time I went there, they are sleeping in the shade which I’m quite lucky to see them. (In the bushes will be very hard to see) It is really a great first impression. Walking a little bit, we see a chamois. The exhibit is steep and it is built upon a mountain and in the bottom, a shelter. Only one chamois is in there, so the space needing is smaller and this exhibit fit. And then we arrive the takin exhibit. The takin themselves, are very big and there are six to seven individual there. The exhibit is quite small and don’t have much hill. Not the best exhibit. Then there is the highlight for everyone except me, red panda. Styan’s exactly. The exhibit is lush and green, providing many climbing opportunities. I didn’t see them outdoors, locked, but the indoors (half indoors) are great too. Snow leopard is up next. The exhibit back is some rock cliff that they can hide and climb up. I didn’t see the snow leopard though.
Walking to the orangutan exhibit, I see the orangutan skywalk. I didn’t see they climb, they only open at 11:30, but I did see clip about them. The exhibit also has a lot of climbing facilities. Not much tree though but lots of grass. The white handed gibbon exhibit is full of trees and the cage itself provides more climbing opportunities. The amur tiger exhibit is divided into two parts, one for male and one for females, I guess? One of the exhibit is good, but the another are a meh.

Walking past the amur tiger, I go on a staircase and see a special species.Stay tune,part 2 will be post later.
 
Part 2


Walking up the stairs, we arrive at the Australian section. The first exhibit is well, the special animal that tama zoo recently got. Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii). Their exhibit is quite large, with 1.1 specimens. The animals are inactive and are sleeping inside their small house. The exhibit is quite lush and green, and there is something for them to play with. Also three houses for them to shade and they can also go to their indoor exhibit (not open). As tassie are one of my reasons to go here, there is a bit of disappointment but seeing their great exhibit, it is true that this is one of my favorite exhibit in here.




Climbing up a bit of slope, we reached the kookaburra exhibit. Nothing special, just two bird cage that you will find in ordinary zoo. Not big, not small, not full of plants but no so barren. The only special thing is that the view behind it is quite good. With nothing ahead, we went back down to the wallaby exhibit.

Turning round the corner, I didn’t see the map-said yellow-footed rock-wallaby, but rather a mixed exhibit for white fronted wallaby(I supposed they mean parma wallaby(Macropus parma)?), magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata) and wallaroo(Macropus robustus).

Not similar to the tassie exhibit, the exhibit has very less grass, with a pond for magpie goose, and almost everywhere else is sand. The exhibit is also not large enough for many specimens as they didn’t have lots of space for jumping.Not a great exhibit indeed.

Turning around the corner again, we arrived at the koala house. There are still some animals except koala(Phascolarctos cinereus) in the koala house, they are(in order of exhibit), Sugar glider(Petaurus breviceps), Tawny frogmouth(Podargus strigoides), common brush tail possum(Trichosurus vulpecula), and woylie(Bettongia ogilbyi). (Didn’t seen the last two),Their exhibit is fairly simple, quite the same as you see in a nocturnal house. Two small tree, sand and leaves in the ground, some string for climbing, and that’s it. For two sugar glider, that is ok but for a tawny frogmouth? Doesn’t seem too good.

And then we entered the koala exhibit. A bunch of sticks sticking together, some leaves and four koalas in a concrete room. That’s basically it. It is feeding time so they are more active, moving and eating, climbing around instead of sleeping.


And that’s it for the Australian zone.Hope you guys like it.
 
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