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Rare Black Leopard Captured In New Images From Kenya
By Faith Karimi/ The Good Stuff/ Africa/ CNN/ cnn.com
"(CNN)The elusive African black leopard is alive and well and living in Kenya -- and there are new pictures to prove it.
A team of biologists shot rare footage of the sleek big cat after spending months watching and waiting, said Nick Pilfold, a global conservation scientist at the San Diego Zoo.
While there have been previous reports of sightings of black leopards in Africa -- they're also known as black panthers -- the new images offer important confirmation. "It is likely that black leopards have been living in Kenya all along, it is only that high-quality imagery to confirm it has been missing until now," said Pilfold.
The black leopard's sighting was published in the African Journal of Ecology.
Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper said Tuesday that its photographer, Phoebe Okall, shot an image of a black leopard in 2013 in the same region. It's unclear whether that image was publicized at the time.
Pilford said he's "aware of a few different photos taken over the years, but most of them are taken from a distance and could not be used as confirmatory evidence." The 2013 image in particular, he said, "is a captive black leopard that was brought from America as a kitten to Kenya, not wild."
"Prior to the observations in our published paper, the last confirmed observation (in the published record) was 1909 in Ethiopia," he said....."
Will Burrard-Lucas shot the images of the black leopard, and described it as his longtime dream to photograph the big cats.
Richard
By Faith Karimi/ The Good Stuff/ Africa/ CNN/ cnn.com
"(CNN)The elusive African black leopard is alive and well and living in Kenya -- and there are new pictures to prove it.
A team of biologists shot rare footage of the sleek big cat after spending months watching and waiting, said Nick Pilfold, a global conservation scientist at the San Diego Zoo.
While there have been previous reports of sightings of black leopards in Africa -- they're also known as black panthers -- the new images offer important confirmation. "It is likely that black leopards have been living in Kenya all along, it is only that high-quality imagery to confirm it has been missing until now," said Pilfold.
The black leopard's sighting was published in the African Journal of Ecology.
Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper said Tuesday that its photographer, Phoebe Okall, shot an image of a black leopard in 2013 in the same region. It's unclear whether that image was publicized at the time.
Pilford said he's "aware of a few different photos taken over the years, but most of them are taken from a distance and could not be used as confirmatory evidence." The 2013 image in particular, he said, "is a captive black leopard that was brought from America as a kitten to Kenya, not wild."
"Prior to the observations in our published paper, the last confirmed observation (in the published record) was 1909 in Ethiopia," he said....."
Will Burrard-Lucas shot the images of the black leopard, and described it as his longtime dream to photograph the big cats.
Richard
