360° Lives

"360-Degrees Lives" is a series of semispherical, 360-degree panoramic videos taken with a small camera. The shots provide a wide-ranging look at the lives of animals and insects cared for at zoos and other facilities. Users can view images taken from rare angles of prairie dog pups approaching the camera buried in the ground as well as beetles skillfully walk on top of the lenses.

Here's a safe haven for birds that will outlive their owners

June 10, 2016 update!

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NIIZA, Saitama Prefecture--To step inside Torimura is to be assaulted by a cacophony of noise. But all that chatting and singing is just talking birds doing what they do best.

Literally meaning “bird village,” Torimura is home to 150 parrots, parakeets and finches. Some 40 species are represented. All of the birds were abandoned by their owners.

The shelter, in operation for the past 16 years, is managed by a nonprofit organization called... (By MASAYOSHI HAYASHI/ Staff Writer)

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*To go to the facility website, click here.

Video & Photo by Toshiyuki Takeya
Graphic design by Akinori Yonezawa
Web design by Hideyuki Ota

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