The Last Refuge: One Woman's Glimpse of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Page #3
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- 2005
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In the years to come
she may bear cubs of her own
permitting study of
a panda family across generations
At seven weeks
the baby weighs more than three pounds
Her eyes are
opening on the world
Her expanding repertoire of
still browsing nearby
Pan is heartened by what he finds
the cub appears normal and fit
with a stomach full of mother's milk
and a strong heartbeat
Time is up
The baby must be returned quickly
to avoid a confrontation
In the weeks to come
Pan and Lu Zhi make
an important observation
When her cub is weeks old
feed for hours at a time
In the past
often though abandonment
and many cubs were
taken from their mothers
only to die later in human care
This all began with a boyhood dream
of adventure in
a far away exotic land...
"When I was in high school
I read Jack London's books
Among the books,
"White Fang"
and "The Call of the Wild"
Form then on
I dreamed of living in remote areas like
western America or Alaska
Living in the wild
and among wild animals...
that was my early dream
and I hoped to make it my future
fascination to enduring devotion
Pan spends months of each year
in primitive conditions
paying some research expenses
out of his own pocket
working late hours
to log and analyze data
in a tiny cubicle that
is both office and bedroom
a stark contrast
The rest of the year
he spends in Beijing
sprawling symbol of
modern industrial China
Here Pan is a biology professor
at Beijing University
His work was mainly
in the laboratory until he
and the panda had their
first fateful encounter
"Um, after graduating
from college
when I was 25years old,
I had the opportunity to
um, to go visit
um, the Beijing Zoo
where they had the first
captive-born baby panda
And that was the first time
that I was able to hold a panda
and it was very interesting
The baby panda
climbed all over me
and that was when
devote my whole
life to studying the pandas"
At a zoo in the ancient capital
city of Xi'an
a visit to a friend...
Her name is Dan-Dan...
a reference to her reddish-brown
and-white coloration
She is one of only three
such pandas they know of
Pan and Lu Zhi think
a throwback to prehistoric times
Pandas may have developed their black
and-white coloration
as camouflage during the ice ages
Finding Dan-Dan ill
in the wild
Pan and Lu Zhi brought her
here for temporary care
hoping she would be
released later
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