by Meg | Sep 5, 2017 | Internship, Panda |
Ni Hao! My name is Lu Lu and I’ve recently celebrated my third birthday here at Bifengxia! The bamboo I eat still towers over my small frame but my jaws are just as powerful as any adult bear here. You’ll find me in Baixiongping 7, the most beautiful area of the base...
by Meg | Sep 2, 2017 | Panda, Science
With a solid week of heavy rain, the temperature dropped from the low 90’s and has hovered around the ideal mid 70’s here at Bifengxia. The temperature change also gave way to each intern hitting the benchmark 90% inter-observer reliability for their...
by Meg | May 16, 2016 | Panda |
With an easily identifiable foaming mouth and stereotypic pacing, Lu Lu (#503), was moved from Bifengxia to Gengda. A wild caught panda, Lu Lu is thought to have been born in 1999, making him 17 years old. I’ve gotten to know him over the previous five years,...
by Meg | Apr 14, 2016 | Internship, Panda
This week I thought I’d switch it up and ACTUALLY write about just pandas…I know, pretty crazy, right? 🙂 Something exciting happened this past Saturday, April 9th. Lu Lu, a favorite of fans and followers, had his first successful mating of the season! Woo-hoo!!! The...
by Meg | Mar 18, 2016 | Panda, PDX Wildlife |
A vast majority of our posts are focused on giant pandas, with little attention given to staff who take care of these black and white balls of fur. Let’s turn the table and focus on the keepers in a mini series so aptly named- Keeper Profiles. ...
