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...
by Meg | Jul 20, 2012 | Current Endangered Species News, Internship, Panda, Travel
Everyone at the base has been busy the last couple of weeks preparing for the arrival of the first panda cubs: All the male pandas have been moved out of the breeding center to make room for the females that the staff believes are close to giving birth, the breeding...
by Meg | Jul 17, 2012 | Internship, Panda, Travel |
I started the panda “personality” study last week and I have been introducing a basketball into the pandas’ enclosures and recording their reactions. So far most of the subjects have been females (the birthing season is fast approaching and I wanted to get as many...
by Meg | Jun 4, 2012 | Internship, Panda, Travel |
Seeing the pandas for the first time was amazing, they are so adorable, I am glad that it is my job to watch them all day! I am very excited to start working with the pandas and with all the people at the base. It was a little bit intimidating being in a foreign...
