by Meg | Jun 7, 2016 | PDXWildlife
Two beloved bears from the United States- Tai Shan from the National Zoo and Mei Sheng from the San Diego Zoo, were our first stops at Dujiangyan. They both seemed to be drawing in quite a crowd from the other fellow tourists/onlookers, including Hailey and myself....
by Meg | Jun 4, 2016 | PDXWildlife |
When you have four superstar interns, the workload is considerably less than you might think. Hailey, Doireann, Nicole & Bryan have hit our required benchmark of 90% inter-observer reliability, which now allows them to collect behavioral observations on their own....
by Meg | May 24, 2016 | PDXWildlife
We have a sequence of events that we try to follow when bringing in new interns. First, we introduce them to the city, and second, we introduce them to the panda base. We do the first two as low-keyed half days, but on the third day we spend about 10 hours at...
by Meg | May 20, 2016 | PDXWildlife |
With the temperature and humidity in the upper 80’s, Beijing certainly gave me a warm welcome. I think my ideal range is more in line with what a panda prefers, but at least I don’t have to put up with all that hair. During my short time here, I was able...
by Meg | May 17, 2016 | PDXWildlife
The PDXWildlife panda team, which consists of the lovely Meghan Martin-Wintle and the complimentary Nathan Wintle, had to pull double travel duty this week. I’m currently in China preparing for the arrival of the new interns, with Meghan attending the...
by Meg | Mar 29, 2016 | China, PDXWildlife |
As I stuff the last of my dirty clothes into my luggage, I begin to get excited to see my wife and daughter. However, leaving China is never an easy process as it has an addictive quality about it. Weather it’s the smell of freshly steamed baozi or sleepy eyed...
