#Zoo

A team from Hokkaido University, Tokai University and Sapporo Maruyama Zoo has bred the slender shrew in captivity for the first time anywhere. Here is how they pulled it off with a mammal that cannot skip a meal, and why it matters for one of the smallest endangered mammals on Earth.

A baby red-shanked douc langur named Mee — from a species called the world's most beautiful monkey — has gone on display at Yokohama Zoorasia. We look at what this critically endangered birth means, and at Japan's habit of naming zoo animals by public vote and following each individual's life story.