The Last Refuge: One Woman's Glimpse of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Page #3

Synopsis: "The Last Refuge" takes you over the formidable peaks of the Brooks Range and into the last wilderness of its kind on the planet, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Through the story of ...
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Diane Mason
Year:
2005
16 min
23 Views


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

sounds could alarm her mother

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

a wild mother leaves it to

feed for hours at a time

In the past

this natural behavior was

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,

two greatly impressed me

"White Fang"

and "The Call of the Wild"

Form then on

I dreamed of living in remote areas like

western America or Alaska

or the Yukon River Valley...

Living in the wild

and among wild animals...

that was my early dream

and I hoped to make it my future

The years have turned early

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

Pan's other world offers

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

I decided I wanted to

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

this color scheme may be

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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