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 17, 2015 | Panda
Tai Shan “Butterstick” was born on July 9th, 2005 at the National Zoo in Washington D.C. His mother, Mei Xiang and Father, Tian Tian, were the National Zoo’s second pair of giant pandas. Like us, Tai Shan is an international traveler. He stayed at...
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 | Oct 15, 2015 | China, Panda, PDX Wildlife |
Meghan and I are back in China to setup and receive training in endocrinology techniques to analyze all of the feces that we have collected. The poop is collected at Bifengxia, but is analyzed at the new Dujiangyan Veterinary facilities. If you are wondering- Does...
by Meg | Mar 15, 2013 | animal, Current Endangered Species News, Endangered Species, Nonprofit, Panda, PDX Wildlife, photography, Science, Travel, wildlife |
After the partial destruction of the Wolong panda center during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, plans were laid out to build a new facility a few kilometers away. Additionally, a disease control center was to be built closer to Chengdu. It has now been five years since...
