{"id":87714,"date":"2019-02-13T14:42:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T22:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/elusive-black-panther-alive-and-well-in-kenya-study-shows"},"modified":"2019-02-13T14:42:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T22:42:32","slug":"elusive-black-panther-alive-and-well-in-kenya-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/elusive-black-panther-alive-and-well-in-kenya-study-shows","title":{"rendered":"Elusive \u2018black panther\u2019 alive and well in Kenya, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5aDsB-qTLLk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Whispers of sightings of the elusive black leopard have long swirled around central Kenya, and scientists have now confirmed its presence there with a series of rare images taken by camera traps.<\/p>\n<p>The images were captured by researchers from the San Diego Zoo who have been studying <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/leopards\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">leopards<\/a> in the Loisaba wildlife conservancy, as well as an independent photographer working in the region at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very excited to hear that these camera traps have captured rare footage of melanistic leopards, otherwise known as black panthers!\u201d the conservancy said on its website.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-02-elusive-black-panther-alive-kenya.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019&#45;02-elusive-black-panther-alive-kenya.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whispers of sightings of the elusive black leopard have long swirled around central Kenya, and scientists have now confirmed its presence there with a series of rare images taken by camera traps. The images were captured by researchers from the San Diego Zoo who have been studying leopards in the Loisaba wildlife conservancy, as well [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}