Kanazawa Zoo Photo Gallery - Jack the Lizard Wonder World

KANAZAWA ZOO
Photo Gallery

In Kanazawa Zoo, herbivores are grouped by four continents of Africa, Oceania, Eurasia and America. Some of them are on the endangered species list.

The zoo is located on the hill in the city of Yokohama, so variety of trees grows in the zoo. The Sawtooth Oak and Konara Quercus serrata Murray attract the Rhinoceros Beetle and the Stag Beetle. A lot of children come to the zoo with their butterfly net. It is so funny to watch the kids staring at the forest with their net instead of zoo animals….

Let's start from Africa!

Eastern Black Rhinoceros

Laura

Giraffes are the next door neighbours.

Ron's lunch time

Reticulated Giraffe

Wander and Milk

Wander and Kiririn

Arabian Oryx
Wild Arabian Oryx had been extinct in 1970s. The captive oryx has been bred and reintroduced to the wild from captivities in the Arabian peninsula.

Sakura the Somali Wild Ass
They live in a herd on deseart in Eastern Ethiopia and Somalia. She, Sakura, is the one of only three Somali Wild Ass in Japan.

Let's go to Oceania next!

Teru the koala

Waminda

Eastern Gray Kangaroo

Common Wambat

The Common wambat is usually solitary. It spends day time in the nest such as tonnel under ground or burrow.

Look, a little kangaroo is in her mom's pouch.

Common Blue-winged Kookaburra
The wild Blue-winged Kookaburras live in northern Australia along rivers. Their foods are small reptiles, amphibians, insects or rodents. They have beautiful blue wings.

Common Blue-winged Kookaburra, Kanazawa Zoo

Swamp Wallaby

They show their friendly faces from the field.

Next is Eurasia.

Yu-Tarou the White-handed Gibbon

Banana is his fabourite food. The wild White-handed Gibbons live in the Malay Peninsula, the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. Fruits, flowers, shoots and insects are the food in the jungles.

Gaur They create herds. The wild Gaur lives in the area from India, Nepal and to the Malay Peninsula. Gaur is the biggest among all wild cattle.		Japanese Crane The crane is cared and protected as one of the natural monuments in Japan. They can be found in Kushiro wetland in Hokkaido.

Szechuan Bharal
The Bharal is like sheep and goat, so very good at climbing on and coming down from the steep cliff.

Japanese Serow The Japanese serow is one of the natural monuments in Japan. The serow live in dense hillside and are mostly solitary.			Kansu Red Deer They live in the deep hillside forest in herds. The big horns fall in the early spring, and new ones grow each year.

Bon and Yoko the Indian Elephant

Indian Rhinoceros
The wild habitats are northern India and southern Nepal.

Oh, there he is.

His name is Kin-tarou. He was born in July, 1983. He spend most of the time in the water on a very warm day.

Look at his huge body. He looks far higher than adult mens. He has become a father of a son this summer.

Let's go to Americas, next!

Pronghorn

Pronghorn lives on the prairies east side of the Rocky Mountains. The Pronghorn can run up to 80 km/h (50 mi/h). He is only the Pronghorn in Japan.

Coloring Page of Pronghorn is HERE!

Rocky Mountain Goat They live on the high altitude in the Rocky Mountains in Canada. On the very warm summer days, their zoo keepers prepare an air conditioned cool room for them.		Rocky Bighorn Sheep The bighorn sheep live on the cliffs in the Rocky Mountains. They can be seen climbing up to or running down from the very steep cliffs. Male sheep hit their big horns to each other during the mating seasons.