Source: Bored Panda
Never was Will Burrard-Lucas so happy a black cat has crossed his path. His cameras’ path, to be more exact. Will has been a full-time wildlife photographer since 2010 and in 2013 he even founded Camtraptions Ltd to turn his inventions for the craft into products for other professionals.
And all of his hard work has perfectly reflected in one of his most recent shoots.
In Laikipia, Kenya, on the 11th of February 11, Will captured a series of high-quality camera trap photographs of a wild melanistic leopard (otherwise known as a black panther). This was the first time the animal has been photographed in Africa since 1909, said Nick Pilfold, a global conservation scientist at the San Diego Zoo.
The female leopard’s coat is pitch black due to melanism, a gene mutation that results in an over-production of pigment, Pilfold added. It’s the opposite of albinism. And although the leopard’s rocking a black coat during the day, its rosette patterns are visible in nighttime infrared imagery.
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