by Meg | Jun 14, 2016 | China |
As PDXWildlife primarily posts on the happenings of pandas and interns, we thought it might be a nice gesture to speak about the familiar faces that we encounter everyday in China. The walk from our apartment to the panda base bus stop takes us past the same people...
by Meg | Jun 10, 2016 | PDXWildlife
The weather is absolutely perfect here at Bifengxia. It’s about 75 degrees, the humidity is low, and the sky is clear from the previous nights rain. The cicadas haven’t shown up just yet, so the ambient sounds outside are filled with panda bleats and...
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...
by Meg | Jun 9, 2016 | PDXWildlife |
Never did I imagine myself saying this, but I miss our little slice of heaven back in Ya’an. Even though we are near the CCRCGP Dujiangyan Base, we are a considerable ways away from the city center- 30 minutes to be exact. Staying in downtown would cost an arm...
by Meg | Jun 8, 2016 | Internship
After a three hour bus ride and a forty five minute taxi drive (which included driving to the wrong panda base) Nate and I officially made it to Dujiangyan with a box full of panda feces. Arriving at the base, I was introduced to what Nate calls “Panda Politics” in...
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 | Jun 2, 2016 | Internship
Nicole Murray describes what she learned in her first week as a PDXWildlife intern- Pandas are way cuter in person and you might have a meltdown when you see your first one. If you saw Hailey’s post, you already know that meeting your first panda is incredibly...
by Meg | Jun 1, 2016 | Internship
In this post, Bryan Kinane fills us in on his first few days in China and shares a lovely video- As our first week here at Bifengxia comes to a dramatic end, with Ge Ge finally successfully mating it seems about the right time to reminisce over our brief time here....
by Meg | May 31, 2016 | Panda
Hi everyone, this is Doireann Ferris. If you couldn’t tell from the title, I love Wu Gang. Wu Gang is a 17 year old male Giant Panda. He was born in the wild and brought into captivity at the tender age of 1. I first fell in love with Wu Gang when I visited...
