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...
by Meg | Mar 21, 2017 | Panda |
Magellan Diagnostics, the maker of a point-of-care blood lead analyzer, has announced an agreement to provide its LeadCare® II testing system to PDXWildlife at the Bifengxia Panda Base in Sichuan, China, for the study of lead exposure in captive giant pandas. The...
by Meg | Mar 10, 2017 | Internship
We have been officially interning for over a week at the Bifengxia Panda Base here in Ya’an, China. One week seems shallow compared to the three months we will be here yet we’ve already learned and experienced so much about pandas, the culture, the history and...
by Meg | Mar 6, 2017 | Science |
We have been in Bifengxia just over a week now and slowly getting used to standing and watching the pandas in the cold, for Gigi (who is from Hawaii) it has been extremely cold. The second you see the first panda of the day, you forget all about being cold. Breeding...
by Meg | Mar 2, 2017 | Internship |
We’ve been busy with matings but it looks like we may get a little bit of a lull soon, fingers crossed we’ll have a little breathing time and maybe even get to take a full day off!! Until then, you guys can read up on our final intern introduction blog,...
