by Meg | Feb 8, 2018 | Conservation, Panda, PDXWildlife |
Returning to Gengda for the third time has been quite the whirlwind. Between a 40+ travel time across the world which included and overnight stay in a hotel in Seattle, and an airline losing my bag, nothing seemed to be working out right. However, upon arrival to...
by Meg | Feb 2, 2018 | Internship, Panda, PDXWildlife |
I primarily focus on the maternal care study for the Winter Internship at Bifengxia, so I thought it’d be appropriate for me to talk about the different mothers I observe. I will focus on 3 mothers in this blog post – Qiao Qiao, Xi Dou, and Su Shan. All three have...
by Kate VanRaden | Jan 22, 2018 | animal, Internship, Panda, PDX Wildlife, PDXWildlife, Science |
After having worked with both grizzlies and pandas, I think it would be a neat idea to compare the two (Thank you Frances Aronson for the idea). For 2 bear species, they’re about as different as bears can be. The giant panda’s evolution diverged from the...
by Kate VanRaden | Jan 18, 2018 | China, Internship, Panda, PDX Wildlife, PDXWildlife |
The star of this post is Jin Ke 津柯 (#743), or as John likes to call him, Janky. This stud muffin was born July 15th, 2009, which makes him 8 years old. Both his mother, Baixue, and father, Ping Ping, were wild-born. Sadly, both passed away in 2015. Jin Ke was born...
by Meg | Jan 5, 2018 | PDXWildlife
Today’s the last day to get in on our New Year’s donation special – welcome in the new year by donating to a good cause (i.e. PDXWildlife!) and receive not only our 2018 Panda Calendar featuring your favorite CCRCGP bears but also a brand new Panda...
by Meg | Dec 7, 2017 | PDXWildlife |
We hopped off of the long distance bus around 4:30 pm and was greeted with near freezing winds at the eerily quiet and closed Gengda bus station. After gathering our bags and zipping up our jackets, we made our way to the intern apartments about 1/4 mile up the...
