A 5 year old female White Rhino is due to arrive from the Leofoo Safari Park in Taiwan during April. A 10 year old male is already waiting for her at Tobu https://phys.org/news/2021-03-taiwan-white-rhino-emma-japan.html
Good the international cooperation may be for animal exchange per se and certainly to be applauded for the ASEAN region (SEAZA organisation), I do believe that it would be more beneficial to create breeding groups of white rhino with multiple cows and a breeding male. Japanese zoos are somewhat lagging behind in developing herds of herd living white rhino as is already practiced in other zoo regions. As Tobu Zoo is a city zoo with limited space available, it would be nice that they would create new improved rhino habitat / exhibit for a solitary rhino species like black or Indian rhino for a city zoo.
I just came across this zoo again because I was thinking about Grape-kun (rip) and was wondering if it’s worth trying to fit into my upcoming trip. Looking over the map on their website, nothing really catches my eye species-wise aside from the firefly house and maybe the fur seal (what species?). Is there anything of note here from an American perspective, for someone who also intends to hit several other zoos that are day trip distance from Tokyo (Ueno, Tama, Zoorasia, Saitama, Inokashira Park)?
According to ZTL, Tobu Aquarium has false and pygmy killer whales, Indo-Pacific and Pacific bottlenose dolphins and rough-toothed dolphins
