by Katie Zajac | Aug 18, 2020 | animal, Education, Panda, PDX Wildlife, PDXWildlife, research, Science
At last, Our Questions Answered! Do male giant pandas vocalize more when females next to them are in heat? Do pandas who tap their toes during sleep pace around their exhibit more? Are squirrels more active in warmer, dryer weather? What is your data telling you? What...
by Katie Zajac | Aug 4, 2020 | animal, Conservation, Education, PDX Wildlife, PDXWildlife, research, Science
It’s Time! Time to collect data! Now that you’ve had a chance to make your own ethogram, it’s finally time to begin recording. But there’s more to it than just recording behaviors using an ethogram. You must institute a collection format, be that the Wide...
by Katie Zajac | Jul 29, 2020 | animal, Conservation, Education, PDX Wildlife, PDXWildlife, research, Science, wildlife
How do you start a behavioral research study? In our previous blog, we shared some of the techniques to doing behavioral research, so now you can go off and start recording right? The answer is…not quite! In conducting behavioral research, you must outline the...
by Katie Zajac | Jul 22, 2020 | animal, Conservation, Education, PDX Wildlife, Science, wildlife
No more tally sheets! That’s right…for the last decade or so, we’ve thrown out the antiquated, hand-marked tally sheets in favor of something far more modernized. Many of our Citizen Scientists may agree, hand-scoring and uploading data can be a bit...
by Katie Zajac | Jul 15, 2020 | Science |
Ever wonder how we measure animal behavior? Recently, we answered the question ‘’Why Animal Behavior?’’ Now it’s time to understand how we record this behavior. In the previous blog, we introduced the ethogram as the selected method used to record observed behavior....
by Katie Zajac | Jul 8, 2020 | animal, China, Conservation, Nonprofit, Panda, PDX Wildlife, Projects, Science, wildlife |
Ever wonder how and why we measure animal behavior? If you have decided to join our Pacing Pandas Citizen Scientist team you should have a pretty good idea of what we’re talking about! In the interest of streamlining the process for our citizen scientists,...
