by Meg | Jun 12, 2017 | PDXWildlife |
The cool aspect of traveling to Guiyang by hired car is that my close confidant, Mr. Cheng, offered to drive me in his fancy new Cadillac. I like to joke with him that he looks like a gangster with the oversized rims and blacked out windows. Traveling from Ya’an,...
by Meg | Jun 9, 2017 | PDXWildlife |
Tuesday was silently celebrated as all of the interns hit the benchmark 90% inter-observer reliability required to independently collect behavioral data. This marks a significant “breathing” point, as they can rest with the fact that they have a set...
by Meg | Jun 3, 2017 | Panda |
Having a solid week of sunshine and 80 degree weather kept us spoiled while training on the multiple behavior studies here at Bifengxia. That was, until today. Even though the clouds are taking pity on us with a light drizzle, without an umbrella you would be soaked...
by Meg | May 31, 2017 | Science |
PDXWildlife founders (Nathan & Meghan) first began conducting research in China in 2010. What seems like an eternity ago, we are now quickly approaching a decades worth of data collection. As female pandas are reproductively viable by about 4+ years of age, cubs...
by Meg | May 24, 2017 | Science |
I’m currently in Dujiangyan accompanying Dr. Kersey (pictured above) for training the staff in fecal hormone analysis. We’ve had a productive couple of days, but as part of this trip I was supposed to drop off our male-male competition fecal samples for...
