They photograph a black leopard for the first time in 100 years – 02/12/2019

They say that the last images of the mythical black leopard were captured 100 years ago. Nobody could find it. Nobody could even pretend that it existed. Until that British photographer Will Burrard-Lucas he found it during an expedition to Africa and represented it with his camera.

Aged 35 and animal lover, the English photographer said he dreamed of photographing the leopard "since childhood". And he did it a few days ago, during a tour in the plains of Kenya, a night as dark as the animal in question.

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As he badured in the Daily Mail, the leopard was stalking prey in the dark. He confused it first with a panther – which fascinated him too – but then confirmed that it was the mythical leopard when he saw his spots on his skin.

"I can not really believe it when I started this project, I did not think I could get a picture of a black leopard in Africa, but that's exactly what's here at the Back of my camera. It's the most awesome and spectacular creature I've ever photographed!Burrard-Lucas told the English media.

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In his blog, where he uploaded some images, he added: "I looked at the picture without understanding it, I could not believe it and a few days pbaded before I realized I had realized my dream".

The black tone of the animal is due to a genetic variant, Which is the opposite of albinism, which gives it an excess of dark pigmentation.

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The specialists believe that the animal would correspond to a female and would have a year. In addition, they indicated that they tended to frequent dense forests to hide and hunt their prey.

According to the English website, the last time that a black leopard was photographed in Africa was in 1909 in Ethiopia. The image is stored at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC.

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