Qi Zai, The World's Only Captive Brown And White Panda, Thrives Against All Odds

Meera Dolasia
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 11:19:09 -0800

With only about 1,800 specimens left in the wild, all giant pandas are precious. However, Qi Zai, a seven-year-old that resides at the Foping Panda Valley in China’s Shaanxi province, is even more so. That’s because he is amongst a handful of giant pandas known to have brown and white fur and the only such specimen in captivity. However, while the 220-pound Qi Zai is now the superstar of the animal world, life has not always been easy.