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...
by Meg | Oct 1, 2015 | Education
On Friday, Nov. 20th, the Oregon Chapter of the Wildlife Society will be hosting the workshop – Hunting With Non-lead Ammunition: Preserving Hunting and Wildlife for Oregon’s Future. PDXWildlife will be in attendance and we hope that others will join. The...
by Meg | Sep 29, 2015 | Internship
With our Feb. 15th -May 15th Giant Panda internship now closed, we though it would be a good idea for everyone to meet the PDXWildlife panda team. Meghan Martin, pictured in the black panda hat, is the director of PDXWildlife and the lead biologist on the Giant Panda...
