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 | Aug 15, 2012 | Internship, Panda, Travel
We are so happy to welcome Kim Render as our Panda Fall intern! Kim will be continuing the personality and stereotypical studies that Arina was performing and will also develop a maternal behavior study to track maternal investment in female giant pandas. Kim...
by Meg | Apr 10, 2012 | Panda, Travel |
If you hadn’t heard, Nate had to fly back to America for some environmental monitoring work. Which left Dee and me in China on our own. Which also meant she has to become a defacto panda scientist for our last month here. I’m writing this as Dee tosses...
by Meg | Apr 4, 2012 | Panda, Sponsors, Travel |
If you’re wondering why there was such a lag between posts for the last couple of weeks it’s because we’ve hit the second “wave” of females going into estrus over here in Bi Feng Xia. One of the females that went into estrous right before...
by Meg | Mar 23, 2012 | Panda |
It’s official – I’m a TV star in China. Or will be . . . The last two days CCTV (China’s largest most watched network) filmed me and my research for a documentary piece on pandas in China. They asked me why I chose to study pandas and what...
