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 22, 2015 | Conservation, Endangered Species, Panda, Science, wildlife |
First, Happy Earth Day! And second, sorry this post has been long time coming! But since my schedule isn’t getting any lighter I thought I’d throw up the pictures of Hua Mei and Hua Rong – her little boy! As most of you know, Hua Mei...
by Meg | Apr 17, 2015 | Endangered Species, Panda, wildlife
Do you know who the first westerners to shoot a Giant Panda where? If not and you’re interested read on . . . During an expedition to China funded by the Field Museum of Natural History in the 1920s, Kermit and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (sons of President...
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 31, 2015 | Endangered Species, Panda, Science, Travel, wildlife |
I promised Frances that I’d get some pictures of Su Lin and her new baby while in China. Little did I know that this request would be harder to fulfill than I originally thought! We left Ya’an on the 10th, stopped at the Dujiangyan giant panda base for...
by Meg | Mar 19, 2015 | animal, Conservation, Education, Endangered Species, Internship, Panda, photography, Projects, Science, Travel, wildlife
Meghan and I just returned from Ya’an, Sichuan, China- A little jet lagged, but very excited to have Ryan and Maria, our two new winter interns, continuing the panda behavioral research. Both interns received a warm welcome from the people of Ya’an, and we...
