by Kate VanRaden | Jan 18, 2018 | China, Internship, Panda, PDX Wildlife, PDXWildlife |
The star of this post is Jin Ke 津柯 (#743), or as John likes to call him, Janky. This stud muffin was born July 15th, 2009, which makes him 8 years old. Both his mother, Baixue, and father, Ping Ping, were wild-born. Sadly, both passed away in 2015. Jin Ke was born...
by Meg | Apr 19, 2017 | Science |
“Shifting” in zoos and sanctuaries means to move an animal from one enclosure to the next, through a door. Shifting can be done by calling out a word like the animal’s name, a key word, or by positive reinforcement (food or enrichment). At the China...
by Meg | Apr 7, 2017 | Panda |
We have hit the half way mark! By now we all have our favorite panda and mine is Wu Gang! He was one of the first pandas I met when I arrived at the Bifengxia Panda Base, and he has continued to grow on me over the past several weeks. Wu Gang is one in a...
by Meg | Apr 1, 2017 | Panda, Science |
There’s no doubt that this internship is one of the coolest you can have if you are interested in pandas. Getting to observe pandas all day and see inside their lives during the busy breeding season is quite an ideal gig, at least to me. Although our job is awesome...
by Meg | Mar 23, 2017 | Science |
The 2017 Winter Interns have been off to a fast start. We dove straight into the breeding season on our first day. We have been recording the female’s behaviors when their estrus levels begin to peak, the male’s behaviors after male-male competition, and...
