by Meg | Jul 7, 2016 | Panda |
Nicole Murray updates us on potential cubs at Bifengxia- Sadly, we are already half way through our time here at Bifengxia, but we are almost done with our stereotypic and personality studies! While these studies wind down, we are patiently waiting for the arrival of...
by Meg | Jul 6, 2016 | Panda |
Hello friends of PDXWildlife, Doireann Ferris here. For my previous blog post I talked about one of our personality trials we conduct here at PDXWildlife -the ice block enrichment trial. Another very interesting enrichment we provide is the introduction of a ball. The...
by Meg | Jun 21, 2016 | Panda |
Greetings from Bryan Kinane- Last Saturday we successfully made it one third of the way through our internship, suffice to say it has flown! One month ago I had never even seen a panda and now I find myself living in China surrounded by 30 or so mischievous bears...
by Meg | Jun 20, 2016 | Panda
Hi friends, it’s Doireann Ferris back again. Here in Bifengxia the temperature has reached a scorching 34 degrees Celsius (93° Fahrenheit) and getting hotter every day! As a fair-skinned Irish person I’m surprised I haven’t melted away or spontaneously...
by Meg | Jun 15, 2016 | Panda
This is Nicole Murray checking in- When you’re looking at photos from thousands of miles away, it can be hard to distinguish between pandas, but here on the base, we are certainly picking favorites. The lady who stole my heart is an eight-year-old fluff ball named Wen...
by Meg | Jun 10, 2016 | Panda
We returned to Bifengxia this afternoon and nothing says “welcome home” quite like a dozen curious panda faces all fixated on your presence. It might have been that I was sampling their bamboo right outside of their cages at feeding time, but I’d...
