by Meg | Oct 23, 2015 | Panda
PDXWildlife collects a lot of panda poop. We do this because feces, as poop is also called, can tell us a story about the panda it came from. When a panda does its business, it passes along what it previously ate as well as hormones that are indicative of what was...
by Meg | Oct 22, 2015 | China, Nonprofit, Panda, PDX Wildlife, Travel |
PDXWildlife’s main base of operations is in Bifengxia, which sits in the mountains above Ya’an, Sichuan, China. It’s a 30 minute bus ride from our apartment, winding through a steep, bamboo lined canyon of rain soaked rock. The Bifengxia base...
by Meg | Oct 18, 2015 | China, Panda, PDX Wildlife |
PDXWildlife spends quite a bit of time working in China. We try to take as many photos and video to share with everyone, but we thought it would be best to put together a Video Tour of each of the bases where we do most of our research. It’s also quite a trip to...
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 | 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...
