by Meg | Apr 29, 2015 | Conservation, Endangered Species, Internship, Nonprofit, Panda, Science, wildlife
Ge Ge and Fei Fei Matings: I promised keep you updated with Ge Ge and Fei Fei the two females currently going into estrus. Ge Ge successfully mated on Sunday with Jin Ke (he is doing great for his first season, right?) and on Monday she mated with Wu Gang (I think she...
by Meg | Apr 25, 2015 | animal, Endangered Species, Internship, Nonprofit, Panda, photography, Science, Travel |
The first month in Ya’an went by very fast. So far the research is going well. I have learned so much form being here for just one month. At the beginning I was worried I would not remember the Panda names, worried it would be very difficult to communicate with...
by Meg | Apr 19, 2015 | Internship, Panda, Science |
Help me welcom Lauran to PDXWildlife as one of our summer interns at Bifengxia! Lauran graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in biology with minors in chemistry and Spanish from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and started in career in health care. In...
by Meg | Apr 11, 2015 | animal, Conservation, Endangered Species, Internship, Nonprofit, Panda
Do I have culture shock? Yes, a little, but I think the hardest part of being in China so far is the language. The language is extremely hard to speak, even something as simple as tea (cha) is hard for them to understand me, since Chinese is a tonal language and I...
by Meg | Apr 10, 2015 | animal, Conservation, Education, Endangered Species, Internship, Panda, Science, wildlife
Yesterday I was reading a book from the Base and I learned many interesting stories about Pandas. I thought it will be a nice topic to write about, so here is the first story of many: “The Panda and the fashion designer”: Do you know who was the first person to take...
by Meg | Mar 23, 2015 | Internship, Panda
As Nate mentioned with his fabulous video, our 2015 season started off with a bang! We’re so happy to be back doing what we love; traveling to China and watching pandas mate. Though one of the hardest seasons to be an intern (the workload is heavy, the...
