by Meg | May 8, 2017 | Internship |
With the end of the breeding season quickly approaching, we now begin to transition over to our summer studies. As we say goodbye to Hope, Stephanie, Gigi, and Hailey, we also need to welcome our next set of interns. In typical PDXWildlife fashion, we like to send out...
by Meg | Mar 24, 2017 | Panda |
Once a year, PDXWildlife campaigns to raise funds for giant panda research and equipment. This year, we need to replace our aging electronic equipment in order to continue collecting data at Bifengxia and Gengda. Our current setup of devices has lasted for 5 years and...
by Meg | Mar 21, 2017 | Panda |
Magellan Diagnostics, the maker of a point-of-care blood lead analyzer, has announced an agreement to provide its LeadCare® II testing system to PDXWildlife at the Bifengxia Panda Base in Sichuan, China, for the study of lead exposure in captive giant pandas. The...
by Meg | Feb 9, 2017 | Science |
At the request of quite a few diligent blog readers, I have accumulated as many panda vocalizations as possible over the last couple weeks. The following video shows a pretty expansive variety of vocalizations; the one that will be most prevalent is the bleat which...
by Meg | Feb 6, 2017 | Panda |
For my first post in February, I want to write a little about the different parenting styles of the mothers at Bifengxia. It really shouldn’t come as a surprise, but each mother interacts with her cubs differently and it is fascinating. Most of the mothers are...
