Qizai- The only Brown Panda! in the World

Qizai, means ‘the seventh son’ was the only Brown panda abandoned by his mother at 2 months old was found as a weak and neglected cub in a nature reserve in Qingling Mountains in Central China. Apparently, his mother disappeared into the jungle, but one thing is sure – she was black and white.

The brown panda is rare as only seven have been spotted in the Qinling region in the last 25 years. 

Qizai is the seventh brown panda bear and he’s being raised at the Foping Panda Valley in the Shaanxi province in China. Qizai which translates to “the seventh son,” is a happy and loving gentle animal who like other panda bears loves to feast on bamboo. 

His keeper He Xin describes Qizai as "gentle, funny and adorable."Other pandas use to eat Qizai's bamboo. "He is slower than the other pandas, but he is also cuter," says He Xin. 

Qizai now weighs more than 220 pounds and eats around 44 pounds of bamboo every day. 

Therefore, the fact that Qizai has a brown and white coat is even more intriguing. Scientists guess that it’s due to some genetic mutation. Despite his tough childhood, Qizai, now at age 7, has turned into a fine specimen, and Chinese experts are planning to find him a mate. 

Being able to observe and study the appearance of his child, researchers would get a step closer to solving brown fur’s mystery.