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....
