I have been up to something fun here this past weekend. I now have my own studio webcam TV station which I have embeded into the Pandarazzi forum to experiment with on you guys. Eventually I plan to do tutorials and radio broadcasts via this station!
CLICK ON ANY OF THE IMAGES TO TAKE YOU TO THE STUDIO CAM PAGE
A LINK TO THE CAM CAN BE FOUND AS THE FIRST ITEM IN THE COLUMN TO YOUR LEFT AS WELL
ABOVE IS A VERY ROUGH MAP OF THE YARD TODAY. I AM COMPLETELY REVAMPING THIS AREA THROUGH SPRINGTIME SO YOU CAN WATCH THE GARDEN ROOM GROW BEFORE YOUR EYES!!!…AND WATCH ME WORK WITH MY CHOWs MEG AND LILLIAN ALWAYS HELPING ME TOO!!
I update on Twitter every 1/2 hour while the broadcast is LIVE. If you don’t want to miss the fun, sign up for http://twitter.com and FOLLOW me…. “pandarazzi” to get the tweets (notices) that I am online. …or simply stop in between 9:00 AM and noon PST, weekdays!! Hope to see you (or you will at least see me) tomorrow!!
This should be a lot of fun. You will get sneek peeks into my studio as well!
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Dang he’s a handsome boy in his teeny tux!!!
What a treat to get these photos of Yan Yan on Xmas day…Carrie you must be working overtime BIGTIME!!! Thank you so much for getting these to us!!! Of course most of you reading this by now know this is the little singleton boy born on the auspicious birthday of 8/08/08…….the beginning of the 2008 Olympics!!!
You can CLICK HERE to see Yan Yans entire “baby book’ I created just for our little man!!!
Photos and update sent to me today from Carrie Phillips at Pandas International.
Images are by the staff in China. Thank you so much for taking these incredible pix!! He is absolutely adorable!!
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Below is an update on Fei Fei’s cub who we have proudly nicknamed “Yan Yan” or Eternal Flame!!!:
“Fei Fei’s cub can walk now. When it wakes up, it will move its body and crawl. When its mother is sitting aside, it trys to crawl to the mother and look for nipples to drink milk. It weighs 4600 g 80 days after its birth and 5800 g on its 100-day birth. It develops well and grows healthily.”
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You guys…I recently discovered an incredible new way of watching wildlife LIVE from Africa and I can hardly stay away from this website. It is called WILDEARTH.TV
I recorded a few minutes of live streaming video from last night’s game drive (BELOW) and a bit from this morning (ABOVE) to give you the general idea of how personalized this cutting edge game drive concept is!!
The audio last night was having problems but usually is very easy to understand
The website even has a 24 hour cam aimed at a watering hole so when everyone in Africa is sleeping and the night creatures are out…you can see them LIVE!! Yesterday I got to watch 3 hyenas bathing in the watering hole..LIVE!!!
To top it off, every member of this FREE service gets a personal webpage and there is live chat open during the game drives with the viewers as well as immediate interaction with the driver, tracker and camera operator on the vehicle. It’s very hard to describe. You just need to drop in and visit for yourself.
Below is from the WildEarth website to help fill you in on what it’s all about.
CLICK HERE TO VISIT MY PERSONAL PAGE ON WILDEARTH…
PANDARAZZI IS A WILDEARTH TV MEMBER AS WELL
FROM WILDEARTH BLOG:
WElcome to our world. WildEarth (WE) is a LIVE wildlife broadcaster. WE broadcast from Djuma Game Reserve, which is a Big 5 reserve next door to the Kruger National Park in South Africa. Every morning (06h00 CAT (Central African Time)) and again at 16h30, WE go out on a LIVE presenter lead safari. At 09h00 every weekday WE do a LIVE bush walk and on Sunday nights at 19h30 WE site around the fire and discuss the weeks events.
WE are on a mission to show the world what the wildlife of Africa is really like. To show our friends (that’s why WE are WE) what the reality of Karula the leopardess’s day is, to introduce Wonky the elephant to the world, to explore Mojo the white tailed mongoose’s territory with him. You see wildlife on the African plain is not about lions killing and elephants charging (although that happens) it’s about the gentle rhythm of connected life, including us.
Please take a look at our website; www.wildearth.tv explore our social network http://wildearth.ning.com subscribe to our Blog at http://blog.wildearth.tv become one of our friends.
Then when you are ready become a member of our cause here, maybe help promote us, maybe help get us some PR, maybe donate some money so that WE can buy Google ads and build a ground swell of understanding … it’s in your nature.
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Good morning Pandarazzi friends
I received this note from Animals Asia this morning and felt it was a great announcement to put here as well. I am a Teddybear collector from WAY back and there are some PRIMO artisan and collector bears on this list to bid on for yourself or give as a gift. Thanks for taking a peek at the Abracadabra Teddies website!!
BELOW ARE A SMALL SAMPLE OF THE TEDDIES AND OTHER ANIMALS AVAILABLE AT AUCTION
Dear Sandra,
Our wonderful friends at Abracadabra Teddy Bears in Saffron Waldon, Essex are once again running a BIG END OF YEAR ONLINE TEDDY BEAR AUCTION to help raise further funds for our rescued bears in China and Vietnam.
Abracadabra Teddy Bears has already raised a phenomenal £29,722 for the bears via auctions over the past five years and this end-of-year auction is one of the biggest yet with over 70 bears and teddies on offer. There really is something for everybody. Bidding has already begun, so don’t delay – get a bid in for your favourite bear today.
Please click on http://www.abracadabra-teddies.com/charity2.htm
to see the teddies. All of the bears have been kindly donated by collectors and artists wanting to make a difference to the lives of the moon bears incarcerated in cages across China and Vietnam.
The online auction will run until 9pm on Sunday 11 January (UK time), so get your bids in soon.
Please bid generously and remember that every donation, no matter how big or small, will help to end the barbaric practice of bear farming.
With warmest wishes and sincerest thanks for your support,
Dave
Dave Neale UK Director Animals Asia Foundation Registered charity No. 1086903
PS: Marsha Davison at Abracadabra will happily answer any questions you have
(marsha@abracadabra-teddies.com)
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Are you guys ready for this!!! Our bestest friends on the planet…Carrie Phillips (adoption coordinator) and Suzanne Braden, founder of Pandas International went truly out of their way to fill my request for photos of our 4 adoption tribe cubbies. Thank you ladies and the staff in China so much for helping give this ole girl a good long cry and giggling fits as I’m sure wil happen to the rest of the Pandarazzi readers
CARRIE WRITES TO ME TODAY:
Hi Sandra,
Well, get ready to smile and laugh! Here are pictures of your beautiful girl Jing Shui. I know the English part of her name is Peaceful Water but she doesn’t look very peaceful to me…she looks very full of energy Plus, she looks like a little escape artist! Adorable! Seeing the panda pictures is one of the best parts of my work day and always makes me smile.
NEWS FLASH…added 1/2 hour later!!
Hi Sandra,
Here is an update on Jing Shui. I didn’t correct the English on this update and you can see that the word “it” is used rather than the word “she”. I’m told the Chinese language does not make the same gender distinction that we do. This is always a challenge when trying to figure out whether a panda is a male or female! Of course, we know that Ying Ying’s cub is a female.
You can send the update to your adopters as it is or correct it as you like.
Ying Ying’s baby can walk and play independently, especially like climbing the fence. it is always trying to climb high and often slide down the fence. however, it never feel the pain, only running to its mother to look for affection, which makes it very happy.
CAN YOU STAND IT!!!!! A BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE TO PANDAS INTERNATIONAL
More photos are on the way of the other cubbies as I receive them!!!!! One per post!
MOST OF THE CUBS FROM OUR TRIBES CAN ALSO BE SEEN AT THIS CHINESE BLOG!!
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I am extremely excited….I just finished this original piece of art to donate to the Pandas International Dinner/Auction in Colorado this coming February 2009!! My model for this stylized piece is the unbelievably hammy and ever adorable Suquing from the Chengdu Panda Base
Anyone and Everyone are invited to attend!! If you live in, or are traveling to the Denver Colorado area, you are extremely lucky to have the chance to be there in person. I’m hoping to go but will have to play it by ear. The PANDAS INTERNATIONAL website has info on it now to sign up for the event!!!
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