This is Qizai, an incredibly rare brown giant panda.

While most of his giant panda cousins are black and white, Qizai is a Qinling panda – a subspecies marked out by its sepia-tinged fur.

Qizai lives in a rare animal center in Xian, northwest China.

Qinling pandas are named for the Qinling Mountains where they are found – and only nine have ever been spotted in the wild since they were discovered in 1985. Qizai is the only one of his kind in captivity.

The unique coloring is believed to come from a confluence of recessive genes, which rarely express themselves. Qizai's mother, for example, was black and white.

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