It's hard to argue with Burrard-Lucas, who just became the first person in more than a century to capture an image of a wild African black leopard (also known as a black panther). The images are ...

"I have never seen a high-quality image of a wild black leopard come out of Africa," he said in a blog post, but then he heard about a sighting at Laikipia Wilderness Camp in Kenya. A local ...

The photograph above may be the first of the elusive cat in the wild in Africa for a century. Panther is another term for an all-black leopard, and sometimes the leopards’ characteristic ...

A wildlife photographer captured stunning images of a rare African black leopard ... Will Burrard-Lucas snapped photos of the black leopard in the wild during a safari in Kenya, he wrote in ...

The black leopard, known as a black panther ... these are the first high-quality camera trap photographs of a wild melanistic leopard ever taken in Africa,” Burrard-Lucas wrote.

Photographed at close range, this marks the first time the black panther — also known as a melanistic leopard — was snapped without camera traps in Africa ... of a wild black panther ...

"Black leopards in Africa are extremely rare ... Nobody I knew had ever seen one in the wild and I never thought that I would either." Burrard-Lucas said he shot the images at Laikipia Wilderness ...

Wildlife officials were able to capture rare footage of a wild animal in Africa ... has been photographed in Africa since 1909. The leopard’s coat color is pitch black as a result of a gene ...

"Black leopards in Africa are extremely rare ... Nobody I knew had ever seen one in the wild and I never thought that I would either." Burrard-Lucas said he shot the images at Laikipia Wilderness ...