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 | 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...
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 | Apr 2, 2012 | Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact, Panda, pollution, Travel |
Bamboo comprises 90-100% of the Pandas diet and is collected from all over the Sichuan province to feed the bears insatiable appetite. In a previous study that we performed last year, the bamboo that was collected near the city center in comparison to samples...
