最难拍的黑豹被拍到了？
The elusive black leopard has been sighted.
最近有人看到了神出鬼没的黑豹。
In Kenya, the vast majority of leopards have a light coat with dark spots.
在肯尼亚，绝大多数豹子的皮毛颜色较浅，带有黑点。
A tiny minority of them have a genetic mutation called melanism that causes them to appear all black in the daylight.
它们中的一小部分有一种叫做黑化型的基因突变，这使得他们在日光下看起来都是黑色的。
According to San Diego Zoo Global, the spots show up in infrared imagery at night.
据圣地亚哥全球动物园称，这些斑点在夜间会出现在红外图像中。
There have been lots of stories about the unique animal in central Kenya's Laikipia County, the location of multiple recent sightings.
在肯尼亚中部的莱基皮亚县，最近有很多关于这种独特动物的报道。
San Diego Zoo Global researchers captured footage of a black leopard there in early 2018 and published their research in late January 2019, in the African Journal of Ecology, in what is believed to be the first confirmed sighting of the rare type of animal in Africa since 1909 published in scientific literature.
圣地亚哥动物园全球研究人员拍摄到黑色豹镜头在2018年初,他们的研究于2019年1月下旬发表在非洲的《生态学杂志》,被认为是1909年以来在非洲第一个发现的罕见类型的动物发表在科学文献中。
Separately, wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas captured high-quality photos of a black leopard there last month.
另外，野生动物摄影师威尔·伯拉德-卢卡斯上个月在那里拍摄到了一只黑豹的高质量照片。
Nicholas Pilfold, a scientist working on the San Diego Zoo Global's leopard conservation program in the area, says that getting any leopard on camera is a challenge.
尼古拉斯.皮特福德是圣地亚哥动物园全球豹保护项目的科学家，他说让任何一只豹上镜头都是一种挑战。
"They're a very elusive cat," he told us.
“它们是很神秘的猫科动物，”他对我们说。
"And then to get black leopards, wow, the first time I got that I was very, very happy, very surprised."
“要拍到黑豹，哇哦，我第一次听说的时候都非常非常惊讶。”
The team set up remote trail cameras that automatically switched on when they detected movement and filmed for 15 to 30 seconds.
研究小组设置了远程跟踪摄像机，当他们检测到移动时，摄像机会自动开启，并持续拍摄15到30秒。
Eventually, they caught images of the rare cat prowling in footage published by the zoo:
最后，他们在动物园公布的视频中捕捉到了这只罕见的大猫在潜行的画面:
Burrard-Lucas, the wildlife photographer, had also heard reports of black panther sightings in the area and traveled to Kenya to try to capture photos of his own.
野生动物摄影师伯拉德-卢卡斯也听说了在该地区看到黑豹的报道，于是前往肯尼亚，试图拍摄自己的照片。
A local resident said she had seen one recently, and another pointed out fresh leopard tracks.
一位当地居民说，她最近见过一只，还另一个人指出了新的黑豹的踪迹。
Burrard-Lucas used a series of Camtraptions camera traps, a system he devised, that included a wireless motion sensor and a high-quality camera.
伯拉德.卢卡斯用了一系列的Camtraptions相机陷阱，这个系统是他自己研发的，包括一个无线动作传感器和一架高品质的相机。
"As I scrolled through the images on the back of the camera, I paused and peered at the photograph below in incomprehension... a pair of eyes surrounded by inky darkness... a black leopard!" he wrote in a blog post.
“我在浏览相机背部的照片时，我停下来费解地看着下面的一张相片...一双眼睛被一篇墨黑包围着...一头黑豹！”他在自己的博客中写道。
"I couldn't believe it and it took a few days before it sank in that I had achieved my dream."
“我简直不敢相信，过了好几天我才冷静下来知道自己梦想成真了。”
On another night, one of his cameras managed to capture the leopard in the light of a full moon, prowling through the darkness.
另一晚，他的相机成功拍到了一头黑豹在满月之夜穿行于黑暗中的镜头。
"As far as I know, these are the first high-quality camera trap photographs of a wild melanistic leopard ever taken in Africa," Burrard-Lucas wrote.
“据我说知，这是首次用高像素的相机捕获到非洲的野生黑豹的镜头，”伯拉德.卢卡斯写道。
Burrard-Lucas and Pilfold's team were working separately, but they believe they captured images of the same leopard.
伯拉德-卢卡斯和皮特福德的团队是分开工作的，不过他们认为他们拍的是同一头 黑豹。
Does this animal remind you of a superhero in a certain critically acclaimed film?
这种动物是否会让你想起某个广受好评的电影的主角呢？
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