Black leopard spotted in Africa for first time in 100 years(1/4)

An ultra-rare black leopard walks through Laikipia Wilderness Camp in central Kenya in 2018. Published in January in the African Journal of Ecology, these photos represent the first scientific documentation of such a creature in Africa in nearly a century. As recently as 2017, only a single sighting had been confirmed—a 1909 photograph taken in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Photo/IC)

An ultra-rare black leopard walks through Laikipia Wilderness Camp in central Kenya in 2018. Published in January in the African Journal of Ecology, these photos represent the first scientific documentation of such a creature in Africa in nearly a century. As recently as 2017, only a single sighting had been confirmed—a 1909 photograph taken in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Photo/IC)

An ultra-rare black leopard walks through Laikipia Wilderness Camp in central Kenya in 2018. Published in January in the African Journal of Ecology, these photos represent the first scientific documentation of such a creature in Africa in nearly a century. As recently as 2017, only a single sighting had been confirmed—a 1909 photograph taken in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Photo/IC)

An ultra-rare black leopard walks through Laikipia Wilderness Camp in central Kenya in 2018. Published in January in the African Journal of Ecology, these photos represent the first scientific documentation of such a creature in Africa in nearly a century. As recently as 2017, only a single sighting had been confirmed—a 1909 photograph taken in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Photo/IC)