The rare black leopard was sported in Loisaba Conservancy in Laikipia.
The black leopard is said to have been spotted in 2018 and Burrard Lucas, a wildlife photographer, came to Kenya trying to take pictures and footages.
After meeting with locals who had seen the animals, and following leopard tracks, Burrard-Lucas set up cameras that included wireless motion sensors, in the hope of photographing the animals at night.
“As I scrolled through the images on the back of the camera, I paused and peered at the photograph below in incomprehension … a pair of eyes surrounded by inky darkness … a black leopard! I couldn’t believe it and it took a few days before it sank in that I had achieved my dream,” Will Burrard-Lucas wrote on his photography blog.
The last black leopard is said to have been seen in Ethiopia in the year 1909 which is a century ago.
The black leopard is as a result of homozygous recessive for melanin just like albinism or human beings.
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