A long time it was unclear whether there is in Africa for black Panther. Now it has been spotted in Kenya, an animal. Black Panthers are leopards with dark pigmented skin. They are mainly from South East Asia. the
A Team of biologists are successful in Kenya, rare footage of a black leopard. In order to prove that the animals also live in Africa.
Black leopards are also called black Panthers. It is not a separate species, but leopards, their fur due to a genetic defect, a dark pigmentation. In suitable light conditions is yet to acknowledge the typical spotted pattern of the leopard.
so Far, black Panther, especially from Southeast Asia are known. In Kenya, there was in the last few years, anecdotal observations, but high-resolution photos, which prove the existence of the animals were missing. The last scientific sighting of an African black Panther confirmed, succeeded in 1909 in Ethiopia.
The new observations are published, the Team of Nicholas Pilford, a wildlife biologist at the San Diego Zoo, in the African Journal of Ecology. The researchers describe that you had to lurk in the Region of Laikipia County in Central Kenya for months to get the black leopard, a total of five Times in front of the camera. The Team camera started to fall. The leopards have shown mostly at night. In the case of the single sighting during the day, the Panther, a leopard and followed without black fur. This could be the mother of the Panthers, suspect the biologists.
Why is the dark coloring arises, is not yet finally clarified. Perhaps the black fur in certain climates is a good camouflage.
