Milking cows are rare experience for kids, especially those who grew up in a city. Some of them are exited and some are afraid to touch udder, but all of them are certainly feeling warmth of other animals.

"I love to watch faces of wondering children, those reminds me that I had same sensation, when my mother took me to the zoo nearby", said chief zookeeper Sekiguchi who has 25 years of experience at Saitama children's zoo as a zookeeper. "Sometimes we loose sense of wonder while we are always surrounded by animals", said Sekiguchi.

The professor of Daitoubunka University which is located close to the zoo has been collecting artworks of Beatrix potter including the tale of Peter rabbit. Because of having children see actual animals from the tales of Potter, the zoo and university tied up to build the museum. Chief manager Hatuno explained about the concept of museum, "Same as the tales of Potter, the zoo, itself is wonder land. Visitors can enjoy collection which includes rare original works of potter and also see animals from the tales such as rabbits and white owls."

"Solders threat me and even bit me even though I reach them to feed", said Yuriko Saito, the zookeeper of naked mole rats. They have very unique social system like bees and ants. There is a queen, the group of solders and the workers. The queen is 1.5 times bigger than the others. Workers have several tasks such as digging hole of the nest, finding food and taking care of baby rats. Solders are very brave. They defend a troop from intruders such as snakes and the other rats. They even sacrifice themselves to predator to protect the troop.

Their original habitat is the desert of northeast Africa, so they can not tolerate high humidity and low temperature. The room temperature can not be below 25 degrees and humidity must be less than 50%. They do not have any far at all even though they are rodents. "They must keep their skin clean and moist. They are like us. Their skin is creased and front teeth are unusually big. They are pretty ugly! But when you see them from the different perspective, you may find their uniqueness", said Saito.

Zookeeper Yuko Nakamura and Yoshiki Miyagawa are taking care of cows and maras. Maras are walking around free inside the zoo. At the end of the day Nakamura and Miyagawa use castanets to gather spreading maras for dinner. Then maras are appearing one by one.

Nakamura haves to count number of the maras everyday. "The zoo is quite broad, so some of them do not return days and even sometimes get eaten by local wildlife such as a fox and a raccoon," said Nakamura.

Miyagawa just start working since this April, so he still must learn so many things. "For me most important thing as a zookeeper is taking care of myself. One day a cow, which weigh about 1500 pounds stepped on my foot. My foot swelled like a balloon. That was my mistake", said Miyagawa.

At the touching zoon zookeeper Kyoko Kurosawa are cutting nails of rabbits for safety of both children and animals themselves.

Kurosawa remembers all of the names of sheep. Each of them has a personality, some of them are shy, and some of them are stubborn. “When you know them very well, eventually you can tell their facial expression such as sleepy or weary, etc”, said Kurosawa.

The first director of the Saitama children’s zoo, Goro Endoh opened the very first touching zoon in Japan when he was working at Ueno zoo. When he also made the touching zoon at Saitama children’s zoo, he paid attention every detail of the design of that. For children and animals adjusting the height and sides of the box which accommodates rabbits and guinea pigs and selecting quality of woods and colors of painting applied on box for safety.