Navigating the Panda Cub Season

Navigating the Panda Cub Season

Our maternal care studies begin once the cubs reach one month in age. Even though we sit outside of the outer doors and only have a single person conduct the trial, this ensures that we avoid causing any undue stress from our presence. However, with an extremely busy...
Changing of the Guard- Panda Internships

Changing of the Guard- Panda Internships

With some incredibly humid and hot weather over the last few days, we welcomed Katie, Katelin, & Hallie to our Bifengxia panda research program. Even though our sweaty handshakes would set the pace for the next few days, each of the interns have been hitting the...
My First Week as a PDXWildlife Intern

My First Week as a PDXWildlife Intern

​            My adventure began with a 13 hour nonstop flight from Chicago O’Hare Airport to Beijing.  I claimed my bag, went through customs and hurried to catch my flight to Chengdu only to find there was a delay.  After 8 hours of waiting and trying to sleep on the...
Leaving Gengda in Good Hands

Leaving Gengda in Good Hands

We departed Gengda for Chengdu as we are now shifting gears to our research at Bifengxia. The fall interns arrive this weekend and we will all head to Ya’an on the 21st. It was hard to leave Zack and Nicki, but we are more than happy to hand over the...
Fall Giant Panda Intern: Katie Zajac

Fall Giant Panda Intern: Katie Zajac

Hello from Canada! I’m so excited to have been selected as one of PDXWildlife’s interns heading to China in August. It has always been a dream of mine to travel to China and it is an even greater privilege to be able to study my favourite animal, the giant panda. My...