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March 25 , 2010
Today we caught an adult giant panda in Wolong Nature Reserve. It's a girl!
Her curious face is now forever etched in my mind. She is beautiful and is rather large, at 70-80 kg!
She was minimally disturbed by the capturing process and is now out there running around in her wild habitat with a GPS collar around her neck.
I am excited to have reached this point after three years of attempting to capture wild pandas. This event happened just two days after my 28th birthday, when friends from both China and the U.S. all wished for me to catch a panda as a birthday present.
We have not come up with a name for our girl yet ... but I feel privileged to be given the chance to get to know her. I hope to share more details as the reality of what happened today sinks in!
Special thanks to all of my weblog friends for their support over the course of this long journey!
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