by Meg | Oct 3, 2012 | Internship, Panda
Starting on October 1 is an eight day holiday here in China, called National Day. From what I can gather everyone in China has this time off and travels. I believe that most of them have come to Bi Fengxia to see pandas. The bus ride up to base normally takes about 30...
by Meg | Sep 8, 2012 | Internship, Panda, Travel
Arina transitioned me to China for about a week and we have been getting along great. She showed me around the base the second day I was here and the next day we transitioned the projects and performed a reliability test for the behavioral scoring. All behavior...
by Meg | Sep 5, 2012 | Science, wildlife
Today was a big day up at the base. Wu Jie (five years old) and Hu Bao (three years old) will be moving to Singapore for a nice ten year visit. The Singapore team has visited Ya’an five times over the past two years to get everything figured out for their two new...
by Meg | Jul 20, 2012 | Current Endangered Species News, Internship, Panda, Travel
Everyone at the base has been busy the last couple of weeks preparing for the arrival of the first panda cubs: All the male pandas have been moved out of the breeding center to make room for the females that the staff believes are close to giving birth, the breeding...
by Meg | Jun 22, 2012 | Internship, Panda
I have been studying the stereotypic activities of the pandas here at Bi Feng Xia for the past several weeks, keeping track of what kinds of stereotypies each panda exhibits and the amount of time they spend on these behaviors. So far, Yao Yuan is the only panda that...
