Internet fame
I was mentioned in the Los Angeles Times in an article about viewing animal web cams.
A while back, I received an email from Claudia Zequeira, an LA Times reporter, asking if I’d agree to be interviewed (via email) about watching giant pandas on web cams. Of course, I agree, lah!
The article was published on 6 September 2005. Here’s my part of the article:
| But because the lighting is often kept low to avoid disturbing the animals, some creatures look like furry blobs. On the panda cams, the round black ears are sometimes the only clues indicating the head.
None of the limitations matter to Chet Chin, an avid panda viewer who logs on in Malaysia. “I don’t really care what the image looks like,” Chin said in an e-mail. “I enjoy the experience of watching their lives. Especially when there’s a mother and her cub.” The San Diego pandas so captivated Chin that she visited the zoo in 2001 just to see Hua Mei, the then-2-year-old female Chin had monitored since birth. |
Full article here.
Claudia is now with the Orlando Sentinel. Thanks, Claudia.
