by Meg | Sep 13, 2017 | Internship |
Everyone say nǐ hǎo (hello) to Chu Xin and Pang Niu! These are the cubs at the Shenshuping Kindergarten who are now a part of our reintroduction study. So far, we have only been working with the bears at Tiantiashan and Hetoping, collecting data on release...
by Meg | Sep 5, 2017 | Science |
PDXWildlife collects over 500 lbs. of male giant panda feces each year in order to measure changes in testosterone and cortisol. This requires an ample amount of supplies including trash bags, collection bags, gloves, markers, two large chest freezers, and a very...
by Meg | Aug 24, 2017 | PDXWildlife, Science |
With some incredibly humid and hot weather over the last few days, we welcomed Katie, Katelin, & Hallie to our Bifengxia panda research program. Even though our sweaty handshakes would set the pace for the next few days, each of the interns have been hitting the...
by Meg | Aug 21, 2017 | Internship |
My adventure began with a 13 hour nonstop flight from Chicago O’Hare Airport to Beijing. I claimed my bag, went through customs and hurried to catch my flight to Chengdu only to find there was a delay. After 8 hours of waiting and trying to sleep on the...
by Meg | Aug 17, 2017 | Internship |
Hello from Canada! I’m so excited to have been selected as one of PDXWildlife’s interns heading to China in August. It has always been a dream of mine to travel to China and it is an even greater privilege to be able to study my favourite animal, the giant panda. My...
