by Meg | Mar 27, 2017 | Internship, Panda |
We’ve been in China for about a month now. How has time flown by so quickly yet at the same time, it feels as if we’ve been here for ages? I would like to believe that we’ve gotten the hang of things. The first couple of weeks were a little overwhelming, as we had to...
by Meg | Mar 24, 2017 | Panda |
Once a year, PDXWildlife campaigns to raise funds for giant panda research and equipment. This year, we need to replace our aging electronic equipment in order to continue collecting data at Bifengxia and Gengda. Our current setup of devices has lasted for 5 years and...
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,...
by Meg | Feb 26, 2017 | Conservation, Internship, wildlife |
Breeding season has been weird so far this year. Just to give a quick update and comparison to other years, usually we have two – three “early” females from Feb 15th – March 1st which are great for training because we slowly ramp into the...
by Meg | Feb 23, 2017 | Science |
We’ve made it to Ya’an, spent a half day settling into the apartment, (sadly missed the airport arrival of Bao Bao even though we were on the lookout), and head to BFX today! Yay! While you’re all waiting anxiously for panda photo updates...
by Meg | Feb 20, 2017 | Science |
The PDXWildlife Winter Research season is about to kick off and I’m writing this in the airport as I wait for, yet another, delayed flight to San Francisco. Fingers crossed I make it to my connection (and my bags do as well!). While I’m never thrilled...
