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| The Jones and their new friends |
Today, The Jones have revised First Conditional and Question Tags. They're enjoying their lasts days in Japan and they are sad because they're leaving the Asian country but happy because they're travel to Galapagos Islands.
The family has visited Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, one of the most important zoos around the world and although they know the importance of these places to help animals, especially those which are under danger of extinction, they prefer to contemplate them in their real environment. They have walked across the entire zoo learning new things about animals and taking lots of photos. They have had the best guide that you can find, Claudia Jones, the member of the family who knows more things about animals and nature.
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The Jones talked about lots of things while they were visiting the different areas. They have expressed their opinions about Educational System and about how new generations are the best in technology and digital tools but the worst in effort and argumentation. It's a great challenge for teachers and parents.
Finally, the family have been talking about animals and their preferences about having one of them as a pet.
Tomorrow, the family is going to visit Myoryuji Temple in Kanazawa and they're meeting the ancient world of ninjas and geishas.
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Humans regard animals as worthy of protection only
when they are on the verge of extinction.
Paul Craig Roberts
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| The Grandma is buying the tickets to enter |
The Ueno Zoo is a 14.3-hectare zoo, managed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and located in Taitō, Tokyo.
It is Japan's oldest zoo, opening on March 20, 1882. It is a five-minute walk from the Park Exit of Ueno Station, with convenient access from Tokyo's public-transportation network.
The Ueno Zoo Monorail, the first monorail in the country, connects the eastern and western parts of the grounds.
The zoo is in Ueno Park, a large urban park that is home to museums, a small amusement park, and other attractions.
More information: Tokyo Zoo
The zoo started life as a menagerie attached to the National Museum of Natural History. In 1881, responsibility for this menagerie was handed to naturalist and civil servant Tanaka Yoshio, who oversaw its transition into a public zoo.
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| Michelle Jones with the flamingos |
The ground was originally estate of the imperial family, but was bestowed, onshi, forming the first part of the name in Japanese, untranslated officially, to the municipal government in 1924, along with Ueno Park, on the occasion of crown prince Hirohito's wedding.
In August 1943, the administrator of Tokyo, Shigeo Ōdachi, ordered that all wild and dangerous animals at the zoo be killed, claiming that bombs could hit the zoo and escaping wild animals would wreak havoc in the streets of Tokyo. Requests by the staff at the zoo for a reprieve, or to evacuate the animals elsewhere, were refused.
More information: Japan Visitor
The animals were executed primarily by poisoning, strangulation or by simply placing the animals on starvation diets. A memorial service was held for the animals in September 1943, while two of the elephants were still starving, and a permanent memorial, built anew in 1975, can be found in the Ueno Zoo.
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| Marta Jones with Shitty, a funny koala |
Shortly after the March 1945 bombings of Tokyo, the Japanese placed U.S. Army Air Force navigator and bombardier Ray "Hap" Halloran on display naked in a Ueno Zoo tiger cage so civilians could walk in front of the cage and view the B-29 prisoner.
The zoo provides animals an environment similar to the natural habitat. In recent years, the old-fashioned cages of the past have been replaced with modern habitats, such as the Gorilla Woods, built after two well-publicized mishaps in 1999.
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The zoo is home to more than 3,000 individuals representing over 400 species. The Sumatran tiger, and western lowland gorilla head the list of the zoo's population. Ueno has more species on exhibition than any other zoo in Japan.
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| Ana Bean-Jones with an adult panda |
The zoo is also home to zebras, Japanese macaques, red-crowned cranes, white-tailed eagles and king penguins, along with goats, sheep, pigs, llamas, ostriches, and rabbits.
At some point, redistribution of the animals among Tokyo's other zoos, including Tama Zoo and Inokashira Nature Park, left Ueno without a lion. However, in response to public demand, Ueno borrowed a female from the Yokohama Municipal Zoo.
More information: Japan Times
After the death of Giant panda Ling Ling in 2008, Ueno Zoo was without a member of this species for the first time since 1972. Two new giant pandas arrived from the Chinese Wolong Nature Reserve in February 2011. The male panda, Billy was renamed in Ueno to Līlī to emphasize his playful vitality. The female's name Siennyu was changed to Shinshin, referring to purity and innocence. The new names were based on a public poll. The final choices picked by the zoo were, however, not among top choices. Reduplication is very common in panda names.
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| Some Jones in the entrance of the zoo |
Other animals housed at the zoo include Asiatic lions, Polar bears, Asian elephants, gorillas, Reticulated giraffes, Sumatran tigers, otters, red foxes, bats, toucans, tapirs, kangaroos, California sea lions, penguins, flamingos, pangolins, slow lorises, southern three-banded armadillos, fennec foxes, pygmy hippos, hippos, okapis, anteaters, crocodiles, turtles, lemurs, pelicans, puffins and black rhinoceroses.
More information: Giant Panda Global
Claudia Jones has remembered how Ueno Zoo works in collaboration with other zoos around the world and even with museums. She has been talking about The Natural History Museum in London, which is a natural history museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.
The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 80 million items within five main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology.
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| Claudia Jones' recent memories in the NHM, London |
The museum is a centre of research specialising in taxonomy, identification and conservation. Given the age of the institution, many of the collections have great historical as well as scientific value, such as specimens collected by Charles Darwin.
The museum is particularly famous for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons and ornate architecture, sometimes dubbed a cathedral of nature, both exemplified by the large Diplodocus cast that dominated the vaulted central hall before it was replaced in 2017 with the skeleton of a blue whale hanging from the ceiling.
More information: Natural History Museum (UK)
The Natural History Museum Library contains extensive books, journals, manuscripts, and artwork collections linked to the work and research of the scientific departments; access to the library is by appointment only. The museum is recognised as the pre-eminent centre of natural history and research of related fields in the world.
Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land.
Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals,
but not many sea faring ones.
Robert T. Bakker
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