by Meg | Feb 13, 2013 | Panda, wildlife |
We had the first mating at the panda base this weekend (2/11-2/12). I figure that’s close enough to Valentines Day that I could write “Valentine’s Day” post about it! This particular mating was a special one for me as the female, Zhen Zhen,...
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 | 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...
