Panda Archive

Qiao Ke

巧柯

Qiao Ke is a male giant panda born on 2014-12-02 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. He is registered in the international giant panda studbook with the individual number 1048, and maintains official captive breeding records managed by the center’s research team. He is the offspring of male giant panda Bing Dwen (studbook 730) and female giant panda Xi Dou (studbook 724). Both of his parents are captive-bred giant pandas housed at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, and both have documented ancestry from wild giant panda populations native to Sichuan province. Currently living at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda’s Wolong Base in Sichuan, China, he participates in the center’s coordinated captive breeding program for giant pandas. The program focuses on maintaining genetic diversity within the captive giant panda population to support future reintroduction efforts for the species. As a healthy adult captive giant panda, he displays species-typical foraging behaviors, consuming up to 15 kilograms of bamboo daily. Giant pandas like Qiao Ke serve as global symbols of wildlife conservation, and his participation in the breeding program supports long-term species recovery efforts that have led to giant pandas being downlisted from Endangered to Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.