by Meg | Dec 21, 2015 | Internship, Panda, PDX Wildlife
PDXWildlife is taking applications for the May 15th-Aug. 15th, 2016 Giant Panda Internship positions until January 2nd, 2016. We are looking to fill four spots that will be located in Sichuan, China to work with panda bears, travel, eat exciting foods, and most...
by Meg | Dec 15, 2015 | Science, wildlife |
So what is our big news that we’ve been hinting about for the last couple of weeks? My PhD work on giant panda mate choice just got published in Nature Communications (click to read the full article)! I’m over-the-moon with the positive responses...
by Meg | Dec 14, 2015 | Panda, PDX Wildlife, Science |
My, has time flown by! In the past few months, I’ve had the chance to connect with each of the 31 bears here at Bifengxia – specifically, the panda mothers and their cubs. Like I said before, being the maternal care intern has its benefits. The more I watch mothers...
by Meg | Nov 24, 2015 | Conservation, Internship, Science |
We hired our winter interns shortly before leaving for China! As most of you who are loyal blog followers know, winter is a BUSY intern season with lots of work and with our increased research load we need super qualified and super dedicated individuals. All four of...
by Meg | Nov 14, 2015 | Panda |
Yao Man, contrary to what the name says, is a female giant panda. She was born on Sept. 27th, 2009 at Bifengxia, to Lu Lu and Guo Guo. She currently resides at the breeding center in Bifengxia, where she looks after her two cubs- 1 female and 1 male. They were born on...