The wildlife photographer had previously heard that the animal was sighted near Laikipia Wilderness Camp in Kenya, so he decided to try his luck. He set up camera traps, but for several nights captured nothing but hyenas. One night, however, he was going through the images when he noticed “a pair of eyes surrounded by inky darkness”.

“No animal is more elusive,” wrote the photographer on his blog when he released the photos. “Nobody I knew had ever seen one in the wild and I never thought that I would either.”

The last time this black wildcat was photographed was in 1909. Nick Pilford, the lead researcher of a leopard conservation program in Laikipia County, confirmed that these were, in fact, the first images of a wild panther in Africa in nearly 100 years.

“We had always heard about black leopard living in this region, but the stories were absent of high-quality footage that could confirm their existence”, Pilford said for *USA Today*.

Take a look at the magnificent shots of this rare animal.

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She had survived through many periods of horrible poaching and it was an achievement to know that her life was not ended by a snare, arrow or a bullet.

Burrard-Lucas has partnered with Tsavo Trust to create a coffee table photo book featuring their work and the elephants of Tsavo.

“F_MU1 was skinny and old but she strode forward with stately grace. Her tusks were so long that they scraped the ground in front of her. She was like a relic from a bygone era,” he wrote on his blog.

“My last encounter with F_MU1 was at another waterhole. It was a memorable morning because elephants and a large herd of buffalo were battling for control of the waterhole. When eventually it quietened down, F_MU1 arrived and I had BeetleCam perfectly positioned to capture one last image of her… the Queen of Elephants…”

The images of the elephant queen and other big tusk elephants living in Tsavo were compiled in a book called Land of Giants.

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The wildlife photographer had previously heard that the animal was sighted near Laikipia Wilderness Camp in Kenya, so he decided to try his luck. He set up camera traps, but for several nights captured nothing but hyenas. One night, however, he was going through the images when he noticed “a pair of eyes surrounded by inky darkness”.

“No animal is more elusive,” wrote the photographer on his blog when he released the photos. “Nobody I knew had ever seen one in the wild and I never thought that I would either.”

The last time this black wildcat was photographed was in 1909. Nick Pilford, the lead researcher of a leopard conservation program in Laikipia County, confirmed that these were, in fact, the first images of a wild panther in Africa in nearly 100 years.

“We had always heard about black leopard living in this region, but the stories were absent of high-quality footage that could confirm their existence”, Pilford said for *USA Today*.

Take a look at the magnificent shots of this rare animal.

The post Rare African Black Leopard Photographed For The First Time in 100 Years appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.

She had survived through many periods of horrible poaching and it was an achievement to know that her life was not ended by a snare, arrow or a bullet.

Burrard-Lucas has partnered with Tsavo Trust to create a coffee table photo book featuring their work and the elephants of Tsavo.

“F_MU1 was skinny and old but she strode forward with stately grace. Her tusks were so long that they scraped the ground in front of her. She was like a relic from a bygone era,” he wrote on his blog.

“My last encounter with F_MU1 was at another waterhole. It was a memorable morning because elephants and a large herd of buffalo were battling for control of the waterhole. When eventually it quietened down, F_MU1 arrived and I had BeetleCam perfectly positioned to capture one last image of her… the Queen of Elephants…”

The images of the elephant queen and other big tusk elephants living in Tsavo were compiled in a book called Land of Giants.

The post Photographer Captures the Last Photos of ‘Queen of Elephants’ appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.