by Meg | Aug 2, 2013 | Conservation, Internship, Panda, wildlife |
The end of my first month at the Panda base of Bifengxia has officially ended. The month had a busy beginning which occupied all my time as Stephanie McMahon (the previous intern) trained me in the personality and stereotypical studies and prepared to hand off all the...
by Meg | Jul 10, 2013 | Internship, Panda |
As is typical of our internship program, Amelie’s first week proved to be very busy filled with inter-observer reliability tests, tours of Ya’An, and a meeting with a Pambassador, Jérôme Pouille! If you aren’t aware of Pambassadors, they’re...
by Meg | Jun 22, 2013 | Conservation, Endangered Species, Panda, Science, wildlife |
Since starting the personality studies, I’ve noticed that each panda approaches the enrichment items differently. I’ve seen pandas swat at the basketball or pick the ball up to hold it, and I’ve seen a panda place her paw on a piece of ice and rub it back and forth...
by Meg | Jun 14, 2013 | Conservation, Current Endangered Species News, Endangered Species, Panda, wildlife
I don’t know if I mentioned this earlier (we didn’t know how hush, hush this project was so were hesitant to publish anything on the blog), but National Geographic and Sky 3D were at the breeding center this winter filming an exciting new 3D panda movie!...
by Meg | Jun 10, 2013 | Conservation, Current Endangered Species News, Endangered Species, Internship, Panda, Science, wildlife |
I started the personality study a couple of weeks ago and so far every panda has had a different reaction to the novel objects. Other than deflating the basketball, Hai Zi showed little interest in either of the novel objects. Xin Nier interacted with most of the...
