by Meg | Oct 25, 2015 | Panda, PDX Wildlife, Science |
Zhen Zhen “Precious” was born Aug. 3rd, 2007 at the San Diego Zoo. She is the daughter of Bai Yun and Gao Gao. Zhen Zhen was transferred to the Bifengxia base in late 2010. She made headline news earlier this year for breaking stamina records for panda...
by Meg | Oct 24, 2015 | Panda, PDX Wildlife, photography, Science |
Luck plays a large role in endangered species research at PDXWildlife, due to the fact that wildlife can be unpredictable. Today was one of those days, but in a very cool way. With a surprise visit from the Director of the CCRCGP- Zhang Hemin, the Bifengxia base...
by Meg | Oct 23, 2015 | Panda
PDXWildlife collects a lot of panda poop. We do this because feces, as poop is also called, can tell us a story about the panda it came from. When a panda does its business, it passes along what it previously ate as well as hormones that are indicative of what was...
by Meg | Oct 22, 2015 | China, Nonprofit, Panda, PDX Wildlife, Travel |
PDXWildlife’s main base of operations is in Bifengxia, which sits in the mountains above Ya’an, Sichuan, China. It’s a 30 minute bus ride from our apartment, winding through a steep, bamboo lined canyon of rain soaked rock. The Bifengxia base...
by Meg | Oct 21, 2015 | Nonprofit, Panda, PDX Wildlife, Science |
We are receiving quite a few requests for updates and photos of Lin Bing- a.k.a. Lin Ping. She has been a fantastic mother and just recently allowed us to capture some great photos and video of her and her cub. https://youtu.be/gw3AAvrTJsg Lin Bing was born to Lin Hui...
by Meg | Oct 19, 2015 | Panda
Pan Pan “Hero Dad” was born in 1985 and was originally rescued in the mountains of Baoxing County, northwest of Ya’an, Sichuan, China. For the first year of his life, Pan Pan was raised along side another cub, An An, in the small home of Li Wuke, who...
by Meg | Oct 18, 2015 | China, Panda, PDX Wildlife |
PDXWildlife spends quite a bit of time working in China. We try to take as many photos and video to share with everyone, but we thought it would be best to put together a Video Tour of each of the bases where we do most of our research. It’s also quite a trip to...
by Meg | Oct 17, 2015 | Panda
Tai Shan “Butterstick” was born on July 9th, 2005 at the National Zoo in Washington D.C. His mother, Mei Xiang and Father, Tian Tian, were the National Zoo’s second pair of giant pandas. Like us, Tai Shan is an international traveler. He stayed at...
by Meg | Oct 16, 2015 | China, Nonprofit, Panda, PDX Wildlife, Projects, Science
All human beings have a certain gross-ness threshold that they can tolerate, but biologist seem to have raised the bar. Feces, a.k.a. poop, is a favorite topic among this crowd of life-science, like-minded research nerds. With the amount of panda poop that we collect,...
by Meg | Oct 15, 2015 | China, Panda, PDX Wildlife |
Meghan and I are back in China to setup and receive training in endocrinology techniques to analyze all of the feces that we have collected. The poop is collected at Bifengxia, but is analyzed at the new Dujiangyan Veterinary facilities. If you are wondering- Does...
