A Japanese zoo is ... exhibiting around 150 animal species. The zoo, located in a mountainous area 20km southwest of central ...

It is popular because visitors can directly interact with animals. It is often introduced in TV shows and travel magazines as the “most dangerous zoo in Japan” for allowing visitors to enter a ...

Those round shells and long legs give Japanese spider crabs an arachnid-like look, hence their common name. These animals also have spines behind and in front of their short eye stalks.

The mongooses came from Okinawa Prefecture, where they had been introduced earlier also to kill dangerous animals. But like so many other species-introduction programs, the plan on Amami-Oshima ...