by Meg | Feb 16, 2012 | Current Endangered Species News, Panda, Travel |
Panda bears have recently received quite a bit of attention. In a recent episode from the Daily Show, Jon Stewart and Ricky Gervais began a hilarious dialogue about panda bears. Fair warning that the content is a little on the graphic side. We give it a near (R)...
by Meg | Feb 15, 2012 | Crested Gibbon, Panda, Travel |
Living and studying abroad has its obvious benefits, but sometimes the difficulties involved are forgotten, and for good reasons. The mountain of obstacles that you have to overcome are a little daunting. This isn’t intended to distract anyone from doing so,...
by Meg | Feb 14, 2012 | Environmental Impact, Panda
Giant Pandas were first introduced to the West in 1869 when a panda pelt and skeleton were sent to Paris by the French zoologist and priest, Father Armand David. Long before Western cultures embraced the lovable black and white panda, they were a staple figure in...
by crestedgibbon | Feb 13, 2012 | Crested Gibbon |
Highland Farm is a wildlife sanctuary in Mae Sot, Thailand Tak Province near the Burmese border. Highland Farm Gibbon Sanctuary rescues mistreated and/or injured gibbons and other wildlife. Many of these animals come from abusive or neglected environments. Since...
by Meg | Feb 11, 2012 | Environmental Impact, Panda |
As part of our studies while we are here in China, we are collecting samples of bamboo at the CCRCGP Panda Base and analyzing for total mercury concentrations. Analyzing for mercury turns out to be the easy part. It’s identifying the bamboo species which can...
by crestedgibbon | Feb 9, 2012 | Crested Gibbon |
The past few weeks have been very busy as we have been trying to collect plant samples from all of the trees that the gibbons use, especially the ones that they feed in. I hope to identify the trees to species. Then our description of the habitat and food sources for...
by Meg | Feb 6, 2012 | Panda |
We arrived in Chengdu at 11pm on February 2nd (after 24 hours of grueling airplane travel with a 2 year old and 11 bags of luggage filled with research equipment). Chengdu is about 2 hours by car outside of Ya’an city, so a driver had to come and pick us up on...
by crestedgibbon | Feb 4, 2012 | Crested Gibbon |
I am sorry it has been so long since I last blogged. After traveling to the states for the holidays I got out of the habit of writing. Since I last wrote many changes have taken place at my site that have made me very sad. If you recall from a previous blog, a massive...
by ddishman | Feb 2, 2012 | Antarctica, Environmental Impact
The Environmental News Network recently reported the findings from a comprehensive study of the complex food networks of the Southern Ocean. The result? Food webs in this highly productive ocean area are being impacted by climate change and greenhouse gasses. One of...
by Meg | Jan 29, 2012 | Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact, Marine Mammal
A new study published in the most recent edition of Biological Conservation reported that many of the smaller marine mammals such as dolphins, porpoises and manatees are ending up on the menu in many parts of the world. ScienceDaily, Jan. 24th, 2012....
